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.
The point of the piece was not that all environmentalists are NIMBYs.
Just the opposite, in fact. Berkeley activists have blocked new housing and development for many years using environmentalist and affordability rhetoric.
It finally occurred to the more thoughtful environmentalists in the area -- the sort...
The risk of home ownership.
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A VMU primer
Every time I post on the Vertical Mixed Use ordinance, one of the commenters asks me what it is and why it's a good thing. Here's a very short VMU primer. For reasons that I still do not...
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