Favorites March 19th 2022

Very short this weekend.

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24

BREAKING: Belgium will postpone scrapping nuclear energy by 10 years due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine - AFP

This is good news, hopefully Germany will officially follow. (So far they're just considering it). If you want even more details, here's a thread of what every European country is doing on energy in response to the war.

Alexander Baunov @baunov

THREAD 1/10 Judging by the words of Russia’s chief negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, a second topic has emerged in Russian-Ukrainian peace talks: the issue of sanctions against Russia (and their lifting). This both complicates the issue and the peace process and gives it a chance

This reminds me of the point Ben Thompson made about Amazon's negotiation style. The more things you can bring into the discussion, the more possibility there is for compromise, otherwise everything is completely zero sum.

Josh @JalbyMD

We are cooking with fire!!!!! AB 1976 would allow HCD to rezone FOR a the cities if they have not done their low income zoning or fine them $10k a day. This is amazing. HT @alfred_twu for sending me the info. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billText…

Mountain View's plans for meeting state housing requirements involve virtually no changes to zoning, the concept of the state stepping in and just directly making zoning decisions for cities is interesting. Seems strange that it only applies to Southern California counties though.

Toronto