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Typology and age. People in SF live in 110-year-old houses with ancient, dangerous wiring because we don't build modern buildings, any of which would be way safer, one stair or two.
How feasible are parking stacks? Like the machines that stack two cars on top of one another in a single floor? Is the bottleneck there code requirements or market economics?
My wife sometimes treats my daughter to "coffee-juicy". She could make coffee at home and buy juice at the store. What she can't do at home is have the barista recognize my daughter, draw a special picture for her on the top of the cup, and give her extra stickers. That's what community looks like.
Also, they say Council should be focused on the city's budget deficit, presumably by doing things like blocking sales-tax-generating coffee shops and property-tax-generating everything.
One thing I've learned from watching the war in Ukraine is that high-rise buildings are very dangerous defensive platforms and very difficult to capture.
Something to think about as we ponder our national security...
I think we'd know if they were being intercepted. I don't think they're being fired. Possible they're having production issues or possible they're being stockpiled.
Sorry for the urbanist bro take but the Russia-Ukraine war is proving that fossil fuel transportation systems are an enormous national security liability.
This applies to the US as much as anywhere else -- Russia's enormous size was a strategic asset in WW2 but is now a liability.
💥 Russia: Kirishi Oil Refinery struck by Ukraine near Saint Petersburg in Leningrad region. It is the second-largest refinery in all of Russia with a refining capacity of 20.2 million tons per year; 402,000 barrels per day.
