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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, I’m from The Netherlands where a lot of smaller towns have a train station. It’s awesome. Often they don’t get express trains, but a lot of the lines have two local trains per hour and I don’t think there’s any with less than hourly service.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, that’s clearly the way to go. Also other triggers for zoning overrides are possible. Transit was not a bad one, but neither are college campuses, and just plain land value per dwelling unit.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 4h

There are a lot of higher end jobs you normally mostly see in cities (ag colleges are an anomaly, there’s two hospitals in the county, and West Sac is a burb of Sac) but also Woodland and Winters have, ya know, lumber yards and canneries.

Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 4h

I understand that to get the thing to pass it was helpful to exempt counties where it wouldn’t have much impact. But the housing crunch is real even in rural counties, just on a different scale. Rents are lower but so are incomes.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 4h

If you had euro style regulations/signaling allowing light rail and mainline to mix, you could have a loop out from Sac to West Sac to Davis to Woodland to the airport back to Sacramento largely on existing track… and still not get to 15 stations within Yolo County limits.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 4h

Fundamentally, this is a rural county. It just happens to contain a UC campus that drives up housing demand.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 4h

There’s no way you get to 15 stations in any sensible plan. You could have a CC infill station in West Sac and run a DMU on the branch line from Davis to Woodland and then you’d have 3.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 4h

SB79 requires 15 passenger rail stations in the county though. Yolo County has one and could perhaps have… three if you added an infill station in West Sac and a DMU rail bus on the branch line to Woodland?

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 5h

ah yes exactly. thank you. and yes you’re right people should call. i think it’s unlikely but i wouldn’t put it past him to outright veto good bills. he’s done it before. often citing concerns he could’ve expressed earlier on but didn’t.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 5h

Yolo is a bit special. There’s lots of potential sites (old single story commercial, parking lots, even greenfield) within a mile of UC Davis. The students just bike.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 5h

SB 79 passed with lots of exceptions and carve outs. My entire county appears to be exempt. But. It really does a lot of upzoning. And it shows that it’s possible to shape land use policy for the common good rather than just for helping local politicians elect their electorates.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 7h

I SAY IT AGAIN: GET IN LOSER WERE URBANIZING CALIFORNIA

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 7h

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 6h

wilders? werken?

Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 6h

And then a bit later people in LA started building double doubles and the reporting on that was all “gee whiz a new architectural form how quaint” no?

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 6h

Awesome, SB 79 got signed. Now let’s think of something that doesn’t have a blanket exclusion for the entire county I live in.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 7h

also they pass into law automatically if he doesn’t sign them. no pocket veto in california.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 15h

gee whiz i think you’re onto something

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 15h

there’s 456 sermons online from the church hegseth used to go to. the priest that converted vance prefers does lots of lectures and podcast interviews. btw, apropos of nothing… remember when people were scrutinizing every old jeremiah wright sermon they could dig up?

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 18h

i do not, in fact, believe in hell and all that

but sometimes i wish i could

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 19h

ikea

Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 20h

always

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 21h

i’m seeing a lot of people suggest greta thunberg

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 21h

you’re aware people can multiply numbers right?

Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 21h

nowhere near enough to make a difference. not in the high demand parts of the country anyway. numbers just don’t add up.

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 22h

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3d

we as liberals don't actually need to cede the idea of military effectiveness to the right. we should point out that these meathead morons are going to lose us a fucking war.

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