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M. Nolan Gray 🥑

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the once and future city planner // senior legislative director for california YIMBY // AICP // proud kentuckian // #BBN // buy my book ❤

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 19d

Californians! We're not out of the woods yet! If you were excited about the legislature's historic passage of SB 79 last week, please take 30 seconds to call and email the governor requesting his signature. (And get five friends to do the same!)
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Tell the Governor: Sign SB 79!

SB 79 will make it faster and easier to build multi-family housing near certain transit stops, like train and dedicated bus rapid transit lines, by making it legal for more homes to be built in these ...

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 12h

I can't stop thinking about this. We're pursuing zero fire risk in multifam, while tolerating much more in single-fam. People respond by building and living in single-fam, where they're exposed to not only one of the highest fire death risks in the developed world, but also TONS more car crash risk

Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 13h

Love this new report on buildings' relative fire safety from @alexhrwtz.bsky.social and Pew colleagues.

www.pew.org/en/research-...

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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 22h

The California fire marshal has created an email address for comments from the public on the legislatively mandated single-exit work group: [email protected]

If you have any comments (any at all, whether particularly novel or not), please send them.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d

Some of you all treat your musical tastes like your go-to Subway sandwich: you picked when you were 12 and now you're going to eat the same thing for the rest of your life.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 2d

In the 2010s, administrators desperately wanted to kill off any college radio station that didn't have a dedicated source of funding, and I'm grateful for the extent to which they failed.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 2d

My first semester, I did the obligatory 3am to 6pm graveyard shift, and the same guy would call each week and request Gwen Stefani. I told me if he could find a Gwen Stefani "deepcut," I'd play it.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 2d

At WRFL, DJs are made to do a lot of volunteering work (album sorting, album reviews, manning concerts) that naturally expands their palette, on top of being in a community of music lovers. And DJs get feedback on the mechanics of their mixing and on-air banter. It's a top product, and free!

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 2d

"Give us a call at 859-257-9735. That's 859-257-WRFL. Keep it tuned all the way to the left!" Burned into my brain.
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WRFL Lexington: Your only alternative left. Stream now!

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 2d

I was an on-air DJ at WRFL 88.1 FM for four years and it's one of the most enriching things I've ever done. I love putting on the local college radio station wherever I'm at and letting someone take me on a ride through their tastes.

Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 5d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 2d

Early zoning codes commonly treated multifamily housing as a commercial use. You still sometimes see this in codes. Because the money is handed to a landlord instead of a bank, it's not a residential use. It's the same Anglo-American anti-commmercial hysteria that killed off corner groceries.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 2d

Explicit racism/classism has fallen out of fashion, but many of the arguments against apartments made by early zoners remain familiar, e.g. disparaging remarks about developers getting rich building them—as if "provide valued good/service, get paid" isn't the entire premise of a market economy.

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 2d

Basically all professional journals treat multifamily dwellings as a selfish convenience with serious social costs in the 1920s. They always are opposed to the purportedly universal necessity of detached houses—which they always conflate with ownership and eusocial behavior.

Are Apartments Necessary?

An Important Test as to the Legality of Zoning Regulations. Judge Kramer Rules Against Establishment of Apartment Houses in Resident Sections

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 2d

Statistically speaking, if past lives are real, you've almost certainly been a series of Chinese and/or Indian peasants.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 3d

We went to a psychic for a prediction on whether Governor Newsom will sign SB 79. The verdict will SHOCK you!

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 3d

If you're ever cut off by a Prius with a "ZONING KILLS DREAMS!" bumper sticker, it was probably someone else.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 4d

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Amazon.com: The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms: 9781032733920: Hess, Daniel Baldwin: Books

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 4d

Out today! The Shoup Doctrine is a collection of essays honoring the life and legacy of Donald Shoup. It was a fantastic honor to be invited to contribute.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 4d

Lmaooooo

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 4d

Happy to be celebrating the life and work of Professor Donald Shoup today at UCLA. In addition to transforming the way we think about parking, he was a great man and a generous mentor!

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 5d

Dave Chapelle is a NIMBY. reason.com/2022/02/10/d...

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 5d

We really need to stop siting our public schools this way. Schools should be at the center of town.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 5d

Dems briefly thought voters wanted lovable big oafs, and they do, but they want physically distinct natural alpha male even more.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 5d

I'll arrive a little after 8pm. Trivia starts at 9pm. I recommend getting there early, there will be quite a few YIMBYs.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 5d

Dang, still waiting on my copy!

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Catie Gould @citizen-cate.bsky.social · 5d

In good news, I got this book just in time to bring to Shoup’s memorial service at UCLA tomorrow. Very special that he got to read & edit these essays in tribute to his work before he passed away last year. 🥹

Shoup Doctrine, book about Donald Shoup’s work on parking reform.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 6d

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 6d

Hey Los Angeles YIMBYs: I'm in town. A bunch of us will be meeting at Irish Times in Palms for bar trivia tomorrow. Trivia starts at 9pm, but I recommend arriving as early as possible! See you there?

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