Rory Stolzenberg
@rorystolzenberg.bsky.social
renewable energy tech by day. legalizing housing by night. sometimes vice versa.
planning commissioner in charlottesville
planning commissioner in charlottesville
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Good news: New data suggest that Portland's inclusionary zoning program is finally working as intended, after being fully funded in 2024 www.sightline.org/2025/11/25/p...
Portland’s Inclusionary Zoning Program Is Finally Performing, New Data Suggests | Sightline Institute
Because for the first time, the city fully funded it.
www.sightline.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Good news: New data suggest that Portland's inclusionary zoning program is finally working as intended, after being fully funded in 2024 www.sightline.org/2025/11/25/p...
Amtrak really needs to get a handle on its wildly inconsistent and arbitrary policy enforcement.
Below, station attendants refused to let a passenger board 11 minutes before departure in Charlotte this morning 👇
Below, station attendants refused to let a passenger board 11 minutes before departure in Charlotte this morning 👇
The days of running to catch a train are over so I better never see that scene in a movie again.
Once they close the train doors, they will not open them again, and it’s a mystery as to how early they close. Could be 10 min before, could be 1 min before. 🤷🏼♀️
Their advice is to be 60 min early 🫠😵💫
Once they close the train doors, they will not open them again, and it’s a mystery as to how early they close. Could be 10 min before, could be 1 min before. 🤷🏼♀️
Their advice is to be 60 min early 🫠😵💫
I am so befuddled by this and now kind of pissed. They are definitely getting an email from me this morning 😡😡😡
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Amtrak really needs to get a handle on its wildly inconsistent and arbitrary policy enforcement.
Below, station attendants refused to let a passenger board 11 minutes before departure in Charlotte this morning 👇
Below, station attendants refused to let a passenger board 11 minutes before departure in Charlotte this morning 👇
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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."
"Against Change" on the community meeting sticky note board is a little on the nose.
The conversation spilled over onto the Post-It notes people left on the interactive maps of the project.”
““This will BRING DRUGS”
“This will bring homeless”
”People who live in Queens DO NOT GO to Brooklyn College — they attend Queens College”
“Against Change”
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/23/s...
““This will BRING DRUGS”
“This will bring homeless”
”People who live in Queens DO NOT GO to Brooklyn College — they attend Queens College”
“Against Change”
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/23/s...
Sunday Read: Middle Village Has a Love-Hate Relationship with the IBX - Streetsblog New York City
The IBX light rail project is collecting out a loud group of critics — and a wellspring of support in central Queens.
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Against Change" on the community meeting sticky note board is a little on the nose.
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It brings me no joy to share another transportation survey. But if we want a high quality and fair transportation system that provides accessibility to everyone, we have to fill these damn things out.
VDOT wants input on the future of the intersection of I-64 and 5th Street.
If you’re wondering how to respond, see the screenshot below from our friend Peter Krebs at PEC.
The survey closes Friday the 21st (tomorrow!), so please take a few minutes to fill out now.
publicinput.com/cu-25-03alts...
If you’re wondering how to respond, see the screenshot below from our friend Peter Krebs at PEC.
The survey closes Friday the 21st (tomorrow!), so please take a few minutes to fill out now.
publicinput.com/cu-25-03alts...
November 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
It brings me no joy to share another transportation survey. But if we want a high quality and fair transportation system that provides accessibility to everyone, we have to fill these damn things out.
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If we build more housing in Charlottesville - even housing that isn’t specifically designed for larger families - more families with kids will be able to live here. We believe this is a good thing!
How can we improve urban housing to support families? In a new post, I look at downtown Chicago. Despite building little family-friendly housing, it's been among the city's fastest-growing areas for families.
That's owed to broadly building more housing.
pencillingout.substack.com/p/chicagos-d...
That's owed to broadly building more housing.
pencillingout.substack.com/p/chicagos-d...
Chicago's downtown family boom
And what it can tell us about building family-friendly cities
pencillingout.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
If we build more housing in Charlottesville - even housing that isn’t specifically designed for larger families - more families with kids will be able to live here. We believe this is a good thing!
love standard time and also dominion energy, it's so cool to commute on a scooter in the dark with every other streetlight dead
November 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
love standard time and also dominion energy, it's so cool to commute on a scooter in the dark with every other streetlight dead
It is illegal to bring artwork, plants, or silverware onto an Amtrak train.
www.amtrak.com/prohibited-i...
www.amtrak.com/prohibited-i...
November 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
It is illegal to bring artwork, plants, or silverware onto an Amtrak train.
www.amtrak.com/prohibited-i...
www.amtrak.com/prohibited-i...
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The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
www.urban.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Welcome to the club, Alexandria!
Zoning for Housing lawsuit dismissed!!
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Welcome to the club, Alexandria!
This article is horrifying. But on the bright side, this series from APM led to a wholesale rethinking of reading curricula in both Charlottesville and Albemarle school divisions in 2020:
dailyprogress.com/news/local/b...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/b...
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This article is horrifying. But on the bright side, this series from APM led to a wholesale rethinking of reading curricula in both Charlottesville and Albemarle school divisions in 2020:
dailyprogress.com/news/local/b...
dailyprogress.com/news/local/b...
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I think this is true (hopefully it's not) but if Charlottesville had set a goal last December of increasing the city's protected bike lanes by at least 1 foot in 2025, they would not be on track to meet that goal.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I think this is true (hopefully it's not) but if Charlottesville had set a goal last December of increasing the city's protected bike lanes by at least 1 foot in 2025, they would not be on track to meet that goal.
Boarding in Moynihan for the first time in ages and... what happened to all the screens? Looking rough.
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Boarding in Moynihan for the first time in ages and... what happened to all the screens? Looking rough.
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Really interesting analysis from @zyudhishthu.bsky.social about how building housing, in general, benefits the ability of families to live in a city. pencillingout.substack.com/p/chicagos-d...
Chicago's downtown family boom
And what it can tell us about building family-friendly cities
pencillingout.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Really interesting analysis from @zyudhishthu.bsky.social about how building housing, in general, benefits the ability of families to live in a city. pencillingout.substack.com/p/chicagos-d...
he's running
if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners
THEY USED TO CALL US WOKE
NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
NOW THEY CAN CALL US WIDE AWAKES
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
he's running
honestly wild that coyner in a harris+6 district thought it was a good idea to insert herself in the middle of a statewide race on the side of letting jackbooted thugs run rampant across the commonwealth. rip bozo
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
honestly wild that coyner in a harris+6 district thought it was a good idea to insert herself in the middle of a statewide race on the side of letting jackbooted thugs run rampant across the commonwealth. rip bozo
folks,,, get ready to pass some vanvalkenburg housing bills
Democrats are on track for a double-digit number of flips in the Virginia state House. The chamber will be unrecognizable come January.
November 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
folks,,, get ready to pass some vanvalkenburg housing bills
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went over to the other site for the first time in ages to check the local registrar's turnout charts and what the fuck is going on over there man
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
went over to the other site for the first time in ages to check the local registrar's turnout charts and what the fuck is going on over there man
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Still need more baseball?
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Still need more baseball?
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.
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One misconception about IZ is that the market-rate homes in an IZ building cross-subsidize the non-market homes. But this isn't how tax incidence works. Developers cannot set above-market rents, because renters would simply find cheaper rents elsewhere.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
One misconception about IZ is that the market-rate homes in an IZ building cross-subsidize the non-market homes. But this isn't how tax incidence works. Developers cannot set above-market rents, because renters would simply find cheaper rents elsewhere.
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THE FOUNDATION FOR THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
lol new anonymized landed gentry political front just dropped
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
THE FOUNDATION FOR THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC
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lol new anonymized landed gentry political front just dropped
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
lol new anonymized landed gentry political front just dropped
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NIMBYing green energy infrastructure is quickly going to become (already is?) the main climate policy fight. Almost all the fossil fuel infrastructure that has ever been built already exists, so they and their Republican allies can just keep throwing up barriers and stand to profit.
BREAKING from @jael.bsky.social: New York's largest battery project has been canceled.
Swiftsure, a planned 650-megawatt development on Staten Island, was quietly sunset in August, after facing opposition from, among others, Republican NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa.
The story:
Swiftsure, a planned 650-megawatt development on Staten Island, was quietly sunset in August, after facing opposition from, among others, Republican NYC mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa.
The story:
New York’s Largest Battery Project Has Been Canceled
Fullmark Energy quietly shuttered Swiftsure, a planned 650-megawatt energy storage system on Staten Island.
heatmap.news
October 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
NIMBYing green energy infrastructure is quickly going to become (already is?) the main climate policy fight. Almost all the fossil fuel infrastructure that has ever been built already exists, so they and their Republican allies can just keep throwing up barriers and stand to profit.
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The pictures from this coal train derailment outside Richmond are bonkers.
Note: Siri initially heard “Coltrane” and I approve
www.reddit.com/r/rva/s/g6j3...
Note: Siri initially heard “Coltrane” and I approve
www.reddit.com/r/rva/s/g6j3...
From the rva community on Reddit: CSX coal train derails just outside of Richmond
Explore this post and more from the rva community
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October 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
oops