infill development

Mueller gets a lot of criticism -- see the grouchy comments to this entry -- much of it unfair.

 I like Mueller.  I do agree, though, that it is not a model mixed-use, New Urbanist development.  Among other things, there is  too much segregation of single-family and multi-family/commercial.

Mueller gets a lot of criticism -- see the grouchy comments to this entry -- much of it unfair.

 I like Mueller.  I do agree, though, that it is not a model mixed-use, New Urbanist development.  Among other things, there is  too much segregation of single-family and multi-family/commercial.

A mischievous Katherine Gregor posted this piece about Berkeley’s environmentalist NIMBYs on the ANC listserve just before the 4th of July weekend.

 The debate over there is just now petering out.

Still riding my congestion-pricing hobby horse . . . 

I admit that pricing free roads does make some people worse off.

 That's only natural since people who use free roads during peak times are not paying the full social cost of their trips.

 It's not nearly as simple as rich-vs.-poor, though; determining who gains and who loses is tricky and something I'll write about another time.

Still riding my congestion-pricing hobby horse . . . 

I admit that pricing free roads does make some people worse off.

 That's only natural since people who use free roads during peak times are not paying the full social cost of their trips.

 It's not nearly as simple as rich-vs.-poor, though; determining who gains and who loses is tricky and something I'll write about another time.