don't think I agree with this re: Seattle - the vast majority of the council is 'moderate' with just a handful of progressive voices.

there's a path to citywide victory over milquetoast incumbents in both cities

is this going to be public soon? 👀

at least highway projects usually have the dignity to lie to your face about it

this effort is mentioned in the piece: laxgridlock.com

no instead they just threw their hands up and said there's going to be a "significant and unavoidable" 50,000 additional daily vehicle miles and hoped no one would sue and no one did (looks like the EIR was finalized in 2021)

we didn’t (not sure if anyone has made an attempt at a baseline zoned capacity recently). I‘d guess SB 79 would be in the realm of a 50% increase maybe less

Thanks! Not sure if you read down to the bottom but the methodology for counting potential units came straight from your CHIPs research 🙏

I've heard both versions, we'll know more in the spring

my understanding is that they will qualify as soon as they are built

also thank god for Cal-ITP's high quality transit stop dataset thank you @edasmalchi.bsky.social

we excluded every existing building with more than 2 units of housing (the bill isn't quite that restrictive, preventing demolition of any rent controlled building with more than 2 units (most apartments in LA) unless it's been empty for 7 years)

Going to check this out, thanks! We started the project by designing a scraper but realized it might just be easier to ask Metro for the data - hopeful for an official api/repo in the next few months for easy access

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a serious agency would be preparing now so they could build it in the window after 2028 but before the Southeast Gateway opens and A line gets slammed with transfers