Favorite Rejects 2023-01-26 pt2

AB 309 fan @TribTowerViews

Reading through the planning framework for Stoneridge mall redevelopment in Pleasanton and... here is how the ubiquitous 5/1 façade is mandated through design rules (cc @nytimes).

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Now make it 1800 months

Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng

President Biden has just extended the time Hong Kongers in the US can stay for another 18 months. https://t.co/EbfWkRqCoH

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano

Big rhetorical win for the YIMBYs that even NIMBYs are forced to use the term "missing middle". They're acknowledging it's missing in the same breath they're saying no to it!! Astounding work here.

Matt Clancy @mattsclancy

Don't agree with everything in here, but the big picture is right on the money.

erikhoel.substack.comRemote work is the best thing to happen to families in decadesYet commentators and politicians keep missing it

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I just do this for free. Sad.

bryan metzger @metzgov

Former Rep. Tim Ryan is joining the leadership council of a political nonprofit that promotes the natural gas industry. https://t.co/oxWeGFts9k

Neil Chilson ⤴️⬆️🆙📈 🚀 @neil_chilson

guy who is afraid we'll solve climate change with technology instead of upending capitalism.

Daniel Besinaiz @cityplannerd

Costco, typically known for giant buildings full of bulk goods surrounded by massive parking lots, is working on a deal in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles that would put apartments full of potential customers on top of a planned store. costar.com/article/899472…

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

Durham and Barr searched everywhere for the deep state plot against Trump, but ended up getting a tip accusing *Trump* of crimes that even they decided "was too serious and credible to ignore." Barr had Durham investigate it, unclear what became of it nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/…

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff

I just recorded a podcast with @ASlavitt and @JerusalemDemsas (forthcoming) where I noted that wealthy Bay Area NIMBYs are unusually sophisticated in their rhetoric. They know how to keep out people who aren't their kind while claiming to do the opposite.

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

A measily bike lane on Hopkins in Berkeley is now the city's biggest battle. Its wild to see in this pro-car rant (that says cyclists are a radical bike lobby) age- & white-washing all cyclists coming from motorist NIMBYs in the all white, segregated, rich Northbrae neighborhood. https://t.co/jsrZ3vAgcT

Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill

One of the most fascinating papers I've read for a long time: People dislike their political opponents for views that most don't actually hold. [Preprint; N = 4,993; 1/5.] psyarxiv.com/cr23g/