Max Dubler 🏳️🌈
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Posting for California YIMBY about housing, and for myself about skateboarding and cameras. Tradeoffs are real. he/him
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Max Dubler 🏳️🌈
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· Dec 2
Salesperson: and as you can see, the jacket has this wonderful red lining
Me, an urban planner, eyes narrowing: it has WHAT
Me, an urban planner, eyes narrowing: it has WHAT
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This piece is as good as people say it is. A fierce critique of zoning, by the former executive director of the zoning office in Baltimore.
"Why I lost faith in zoning." tinyurl.com/5n8sh428 Baltimore’s former zoning board executive director, on why she supports @mayorbmscott.bsky.social bills to promote more density and multi-family housing in the city. [OP-ED]
Baltimore’s former zoning board director explains why she lost faith in zoning | Baltimore Brew
The mayor’s “Housing Options and Opportunity” legislation – including Bill 25-0066 – will go a long way toward fixing an unfair system. [OP-ED]
tinyurl.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This piece is as good as people say it is. A fierce critique of zoning, by the former executive director of the zoning office in Baltimore.
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When I begin my career, it was impossible to imagine that the American Institute of Certified Planners would include a question like this on its exam. The AICP isn’t what it used to be, in a good way!
It had a question about dynamic pricing for curb parking!
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
When I begin my career, it was impossible to imagine that the American Institute of Certified Planners would include a question like this on its exam. The AICP isn’t what it used to be, in a good way!
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Paul’s at the forefront of American housing policy. Tying together YIMBYism, public finance, and public development, he’s building *the model* for American social housing.
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Paul’s at the forefront of American housing policy. Tying together YIMBYism, public finance, and public development, he’s building *the model* for American social housing.
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
Now he’s been appointed to Zohran’s Transition Committee on Housing. We at @publicenterprise.bsky.social couldn’t be prouder!
Just passed the American Institute of Certified Planners exam 🙂
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Just passed the American Institute of Certified Planners exam 🙂
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nothing will radicalize you against zoning quite like engaging with zoning
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
nothing will radicalize you against zoning quite like engaging with zoning
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"The density regulations roughly matched the existing density of each neighborhood, sort of, more or less. That was it. No science. No public health data. Just numbers written into a chart decades ago with the sole goal of preserving the status quo."
"Why I lost faith in zoning." tinyurl.com/5n8sh428 Baltimore’s former zoning board executive director, on why she supports @mayorbmscott.bsky.social bills to promote more density and multi-family housing in the city. [OP-ED]
Baltimore’s former zoning board director explains why she lost faith in zoning | Baltimore Brew
The mayor’s “Housing Options and Opportunity” legislation – including Bill 25-0066 – will go a long way toward fixing an unfair system. [OP-ED]
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"The density regulations roughly matched the existing density of each neighborhood, sort of, more or less. That was it. No science. No public health data. Just numbers written into a chart decades ago with the sole goal of preserving the status quo."
Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.
One of the less remarked upon features of historic preservation law is that it creates a perverse incentive for the owners of distinctive older buildings to radically renovate them before they are landmarked or, once landmarked, to burn them down to avoid extremely onerous regulation.
Developer may face hefty fines for tearing apart S.F. quake shacks and must restore them, city says
A developer who all but demolished two historic earthquake shacks in Noe Valley must reconstruct the buildings under close supervision from the city and could face hefty fines, officials said.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
One of the less remarked upon features of historic preservation law is that it creates a perverse incentive for the owners of distinctive older buildings to radically renovate them before they are landmarked or, once landmarked, to burn them down to avoid extremely onerous regulation.
Unfunded inclusionary zoning is bad!
The research in Happy City is more than a decade old. Recent experience suggests the inclusionary zoning approach I supported has recently led to delay/cancellation of new housing.
To your point Mark, yes, coops/cohousing do seem to create a blast radius of social connections in surrounding 'hood.
To your point Mark, yes, coops/cohousing do seem to create a blast radius of social connections in surrounding 'hood.
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Unfunded inclusionary zoning is bad!
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Group DMs on BlueSky would be like Viennese cafes, Louise-Philippe era banquets, or Spanish Civil War era charitable groups. They’d accelerate the invention of Woke 2 by like 15 months, minimum.
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Group DMs on BlueSky would be like Viennese cafes, Louise-Philippe era banquets, or Spanish Civil War era charitable groups. They’d accelerate the invention of Woke 2 by like 15 months, minimum.
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I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.
Sarah Hurwitz Profanes the Holocaust
Holocaust education has worked too well for the Obama speechwriter, since when she rationalizes Israel's genocide, "I sound obscene." Maybe sit with that, Sarah
www.forever-wars.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.
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The Scooby Doo Theory of Housing states that we can arrest housing price inflation if we only some clever kids are able to unmask the evil villain responsible for making rent go up.
I think this is mostly San Francisco finally shrugging off the pandemic, but it is *really* funny that rent prices in San Francisco shot up *immediately* after the city banned RealPage and other algorithmic price setting software.
My pre trends are incredible!
My pre trends are incredible!
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The Scooby Doo Theory of Housing states that we can arrest housing price inflation if we only some clever kids are able to unmask the evil villain responsible for making rent go up.
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this billboard at the apartment building around the corner from my mom's condo in MD would break so many brains in the SF bay area
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
this billboard at the apartment building around the corner from my mom's condo in MD would break so many brains in the SF bay area
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I am studying for the American Planning Association's professional certification exam and I am kind of blown away by the planning profession's lack of faith in itself and confidence in its own judgment.
We know that building more lanes does not fix traffic congestion. We've known this for 75 years!
We know that building more lanes does not fix traffic congestion. We've known this for 75 years!
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I am studying for the American Planning Association's professional certification exam and I am kind of blown away by the planning profession's lack of faith in itself and confidence in its own judgment.
We know that building more lanes does not fix traffic congestion. We've known this for 75 years!
We know that building more lanes does not fix traffic congestion. We've known this for 75 years!
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I am looking respectfully at the lady cyclist who is noted for her athletic power
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I am looking respectfully at the lady cyclist who is noted for her athletic power
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people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna
fake evo-psych has cooked a lot of people's brains
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna
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Cycle chic from NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Cycle chic from NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani
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every traffic death is a policy choice
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
every traffic death is a policy choice
Everything happens so much
I’m having a genuinely difficult time processing all of this, it’s baffling
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Everything happens so much
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perhaps the only unambiguous W for San Francisco zoning laws
Cluely is moving to NYC from SF because... employees are not allowed to sleep in buildings zoned for office space?
Why would you work there
sfstandard.com/2025/11/20/...
Why would you work there
sfstandard.com/2025/11/20/...
San Francisco’s most controversial startup Cluely is moving to New York
The “cheat on everything” AI app is ditching its SoMa headquarters due to legal issues.
sfstandard.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
perhaps the only unambiguous W for San Francisco zoning laws
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Coastal Commission set an IZ rate of 32 percent for sites that had to be rezoned for a housing element. This plus their requirement the affordability runs forever virtually ensures the only development possible is non-profit subsidized. The coast needs much more. www.independent.com/2025/11/18/c...
Coastal Commission Approves Controversial Rezones of Carpinteria Ag Land
Three parcels just outside of Carpinteria city limits were rezoned for housing, despite strong opposition from city residents and officials.
www.independent.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Coastal Commission set an IZ rate of 32 percent for sites that had to be rezoned for a housing element. This plus their requirement the affordability runs forever virtually ensures the only development possible is non-profit subsidized. The coast needs much more. www.independent.com/2025/11/18/c...
New definition of "sending it" just dropped.
Greyson Fletcher's "Hellion" Part
YouTube video by ThrasherMagazine
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
New definition of "sending it" just dropped.
This is a truly remarkable document.
Here's the research referenced in the piece: drive.google.com/file/u/0/d/1...
Foundation Funding of Anti-Housing Work_2025-10-2.pdf
drive.google.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is a truly remarkable document.