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Love: Politics, Wisconsin, democracy, infrastructure, beer, more homes --- Hate: Political polarization, the culture war

Wisconsin, USA

Joined June 2020

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6 months

San Francisco found "quick-build BRT" (left) achieved 70% of the speed improvement at 10% of the cost of traditional BRT projects (right). #Quickbuild can transform transit nearly for free. Let's do this in MKE! READ WHAT I WROTE FOR @journalsentinel :

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3 months

"This country is about to collapse because of what's going on at the border."

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NEW: Milwaukee, Wisconsin just proposed the most ambitious zoning code in the US. 🚨📰🏘️ -ALL residential parking mandates gone -Small apartment buildings legal BY RIGHT in core (medium green) -Triplexes, townhomes, & ADUs legal by right CITYWIDE -Permitting FAST-TRACKED 🧵🧵🧵

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5 months

Hot take: St. Louis' Arch was a *mistake.*

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5 months

7th tallest tower in the world, by far the tallest outside Asia (by roof height) & it's proposed in... ...Oklahoma City? Why.

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The ATX

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Venturing outside of Austin...A California developer want's to build a 134-story, 1,750' hotel & apartment tower in OKC. It would be the second tallest building in the U.S. behind the World Trade Center tower in NYC. I give this a less (much less) than a 50-50 chance of…

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Detroit has half the people it used to and keeps declining, yet this freeway "needs" double the lanes. No money for trains or even just a couple more buses though. Climate arson.

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cars.destroyed.our.cities

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I-75 in Detroit. What it looks like today vs what the Michigan DOT plans to transform it into using the funds from the “Reconnecting Communities” grant.

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If Puerto Rico became a state, how quickly would San Juan become the most "it" city in America?

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Reminder that Charlotte, NC was hardly even a place until recently. *Change for the better is possible.*

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Everyone knows we don't build as pretty as we used to... but nobody seems to know why. It's not "culture" or "trends," nor is it "labor costs." It's actually a lot simpler than that. Here's why we don't build like we used to - and *how* we can start building pretty again 🧵🧵🧵

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6 months

Wisconsin's Fox Valley is home to over 730,000 people - bigger than the Madison metro area! It needs to be better connected. Using existing tracks, we can build a world-class regional rail system for less than the cost of a single highway interchange. What do you think?

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Some U.S. states as Mario maps 🧵

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No, a bomb was not dropped. This is Green Bay - Wisconsin's oldest city. But today you couldn't tell, all of this French colonial town is gone. A 🧵🧵🧵 on the city we lost.

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Sorry - Nazis are outside a *synagogue* & *just two bike cops* is all they could muster?

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One of their stops included Gates of Heaven, a synagogue on Gorham.

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"And with inflation I'm surprised the civil war hasn't started yet. My grocery delivery bill & yearly haircut are $10 more expensive. Trump is the only thing keeping America together."

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Bollards work. Like they really, really work. The whole store would've otherwise exploded. Put 'em everywhere.

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Derek Peters

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Yikes! I have seen a lot of crashes but this might be the worst damage I’ve seen to a vehicle. One vehicle split in half length-wise closing SB Pulaski at 59th St. No word yet on the severity of injuries. Sometimes “at a high rate of speed” doesn’t quite cover it.

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Winners of Amtrack service expansion 4) Colorado, connecting most of their linear foothill cities 3) Ohio, connecting their three 3M+ cities 2) Atlanta, becoming (again?) a new mini-Chicago 1) WISCONSIN, getting the most comprehensive network for some reason Love to see it 🦡🧀

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5 months

@CAChalmers_ "Education: Linguistics" and you ask how he voted for Brexit???

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2 months

I'll wager a million dollars 95 out of 100 random people on the street would prefer the most generic possible contemporary apartment tower (left) to whatever brutalist nonsense architecture nerds idolize (right).

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Louis Anthony Loftus

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Easy. Here’s three!

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If you left the U.S., you'd realize that's the only place where trains *aren't* still being built. From Spain to Malaysia to Kenya to India to South Korea to Nigeria to Japan to France to Poland to Indonesia to Vietnam - almost every single successful country is building them.

@CJHandmer

Casey Handmer, PhD

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If trains were first invented today, they would never be built. No rail-less nations are building rail networks. No, China doesn't count because they're the Paragon of poor economic choices.

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7 months

Asked the new Bing Image AI to make "AmFam Field, but better." @Brewers you don't want to be dumber than a robot, do you? Build the Beer District!

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6 months

Rockford, Illinois📍 Then & now. We destroyed our own cities.

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No city ever became great by thinking small & fearing change. Milwaukee, now's your chance to become great - take it. #ReThink794

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5 months

"What about a park?" "Oh great idea! we could make the concrete riverbank a beautiful green space for the community to ga..." "No, no I meant a park over where all the black & Irish people live" (The riverbank is still a concrete parking lot)

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9 months

@docnoir_ "10 percent of any profession is bad" I mean yeah probably but litterally what does that mean and how does that affect anything

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6 months

Can't wait till these pop up all over Milwaukee. Small apartment buildings will change everything.

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6 months

NEW: Milwaukee, Wisconsin just proposed the most ambitious zoning code in the US. 🚨📰🏘️ -ALL residential parking mandates gone -Small apartment buildings legal BY RIGHT in core (medium green) -Triplexes, townhomes, & ADUs legal by right CITYWIDE -Permitting FAST-TRACKED 🧵🧵🧵

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A lot of people think Wisconsin is some sort of middle American farm town. But this project is nearing completion in Milwaukee and it rented out its two $12,000 a month penthouses within a week & a half, well before they finished. Broaden your horizons, come to the Midwest!

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1 year

The narrowest urban residential street in Wisconsin.

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7 months

I-794 destroyed downtown Milwaukee... All for a 2 minute shorter commute and parking lots/garages that get used 4 times a year? @WisDOTsoutheast is now considering replacing it with a beautiful, tree-line boulevard. Let them know that's the only option. More info below.

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2 years

Here's what Milwaukee could build for half the cost of the Zoo Interchange while moving more than twice the amount of people. Even if you never set foot in a train, $1B is peanuts for the amount of traffic this would take off the freeways. @WisDOTsoutheast

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3 months

@MargielaCapLLC this is also accurate

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@carbdiem British tourists, famously agreeable in Spain, etc

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My brother im christ...

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5 months

Say what you want about the economy... ...but there are several towers vying to be the nation's tallest... ...even under one of the most anti-development regimes in history. As for equality, the tallest of these is built by a black developer, contractor & architect.

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6 months

First time in Mississippi... I never knew so many parts were *this* down on their luck. It's another level of poverty... so sad... When you cannibalize your entire state government budget to give tax breaks to the uber wealthy and industry, this is what happens.

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Republicans have literally been in power for the past decade, gutting universities, childcare programs, etc. to fund billionaires' tax breaks. And now it's the Democrats' fault young people are leaving Wisconsin? By doing the opposite of what caused this crisis to begin with?

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6 months

Countless cities have eliminated single-family zoning & ADU's. They don't add *a ton* of housing, but they allow neighborhoods to be healthy adding capacity & diversity for new & old residents. This will dominate headlines, but it's not the big news...

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TIL Danny Phantom takes place in Wisconsin.

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8 months

I took one of the six (6!) weekly trains leaving Cincinatti's Union Terminal. We are literally living in the ruins of a more advanced society.

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@kaseyklimes Medellin, although in both the impressive canopy is really only present in wealthy/central areas and the rest of the city hardly has any trees.

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Name an athlete who became more of a folk hero than being a great player

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2 months

What's the most underrated natural region in the country and why is it the Driftless?

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7 months

This roundabout in Milwaukee is so dangerous there's a Youtube channel with ~10k subscribers dedicated to the accidents it causes... Why not restore the grid? Safer streets and more economic activity? 🚗🚲🚶♥️💰💰💰

@BertWeather

Bert Lauderdale ⚡

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So heartbreaking to hear what happened to Thelma Carol Wine Merchants last night in Walkers Point. Great people trying to run a business and a drunk driver destroyed their shop. Gotta help them get back from this. 😔

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9 months

@sbuss Lol:

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9 months

I found it. I won. The biggest gap. 6.5 hours more via transit over driving in San Juan, PR.

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6 months

HUGE new 210 unit development coming to Milwaukee's Deer District. Love the historic architecture & cream-like brick. We need more buildings like this. There's also a 27k sqft commercial space for a "unique activation" expected in early 2024. Excited to know what this'll be.

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These people fail to realize the high-speed rail literally is the *newest, highest-tech widely-adopted transportation technology* out there. Highways are largely unchanged since the 70s, HSR as we know it was widely adopted starting in the 90s. Hyperloop, etc. is a fantasy.

@CJHandmer

Casey Handmer, PhD

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If trains were first invented today, they would never be built. No rail-less nations are building rail networks. No, China doesn't count because they're the Paragon of poor economic choices.

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Anyways, back to why we don't/can't build them... 1) Stairway Regulations In the U.S., any structure taller than 3 stories requires a "double-loaded corridor," 2 stairways & a common hallway This forces *looong* buildings only big devs can build, VS rows of smaller structures.

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The bigger news is for places like Bayview and Washington Heights - older neighborhoods rapidly increasing in demand, already packed with 'plexes and adu's. Smaller apartment buildings can now replace houses, without the expensive & controversial process of building on arterials

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5 months

Reminder St. Louis had this 1935 streamliner river boat... (they scrapped it in 2011 😐)

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4 months

This video is driving me nuts. Miami's crime rate (4750/100k) is more than twice as high as NYC's (1978/100k). Serious question: how & why do people hallucinate that NYC is so dangerous when it's literally one of the safest places in the country?

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@Jimbeanjacklink That's not really the point, suburban opinions are valid! (unless you live Bloomington Grove)

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Obviously this won't happen, but I'm still so confused. What's the motive here.

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Scott Bauer

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BREAKING In 4-3 ruling, Wisconsin Supreme Court orders new legislative maps before 2024 election in huge win for Democrats Liberal Justice Janet Protasiewicz sided with liberal majority

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There's a massive water park under the Hilton in downtown Milwaukee, but it's been closed since 2013 for "renovations" that never happened.

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That being said, we still need to build more traditional buildings. Why? A. Traditional architecture gets better with age & wear (📸1 vs 2) B. They can fight NIMBYism - people prefer buildings that feel like were always there (📸3) C. Old designs don't get repetitive (📸4)

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First, let me say that modern architecture - from the bold to the basic - is great! And even if you don't love it, we need to be constructing as much housing as possible. Also, a reminder that everyone hated Brooklyn's brownstones & Paris' Eifel Tower when they were built...

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10 months

This city is unreal. Everywhere street downtown is CRAWLING with people on a wednesday night 💙💛

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2 months

Weighted population density in the Midwest: -Milwaukee clears overall -Minneapolis' recent construction right outside the core really shines through -Indy is shocking

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@Jonathan_Nolan_

Jonathan Nolan

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You’ve almost certainly been lied to after Googling how big the world’s cities are. How can it be that Melbourne in Australia has 5 million residents, whereas New York City only has 8? It's been very difficult to compare cities, until now...

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LESSON 2: make building traditionally easiest Historically, architects were rare - most buildings were built without one. That won't work today, but we *can* offer pre-approved traditional building plans smaller devs can use for free & build themselves, like South Bend, IN did.

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5 months

Danville, Illinois 📍 Then -> Now We destroyed our cities. Why?

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3 months

Milwaukee 1929 -> 2024 Same. Exact. Location. 🫠

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Isaac Rowlett (✡️ for 🇵🇸)

3 months

your periodic reminder that we almost had a subway in Milwaukee

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7 months

Want to know why housing is so expensive? Then take a look at Madison, WI 🧵🧵🧵 📸1) Madison now 📸2) Madison housing pipeline 📸3) Madison zoned housing capacity 📸4) Madison market housing capacity

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5 months

Feds should unironically work to suspend the drivers licenses of everybody in the comments.

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6 months

A lot of people make the mistake of thinking Illinois is just Chicago & its suburbs. Don't be one of those people. 📸1) Champaign, IL 📸2) Peoria, IL 📸3) Quincy, IL 📸4) Rockford, IL

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6 months

Below are examples of other new traditional projects from all over the U.S. So what are we waiting for? Let's loosen regulations and build more pretty buildings!

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6 months

Residential parking mandates, one of the biggest barriers to smaller-scale development, are also being eliminated. As one of the densest cities in the country, with one of the best transit systems and a planned *50 miles* of protected bike lanes by 2030, this is huge.

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2) Form To avoid long, boring, pedestrian-hostile facades, architects started "breaking up the massing." Unfortunately, it's usually done poorly & cheaply, causing buildings to look weird, fake, & almost random. Often this even require by law. Older 🏢's were just rectangles.

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New development in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Next to a streetcar line, transit hub, & Chicagoland Metra station. This is *a second downtown* for a city of under 100,000. Impressive!

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5 months

@BobbyTmke It was our second French Quarter. St Louis would be a 2nd New Orleans.

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6 months

Sheboygan, WI 📍 One of the most underrated small cities out there. Amazing food scene, too.

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WOW, so regarding removing 794's downtown sections we have: -Strong pro-boulevard stance by local govt -Neutral/mixed business community -Construction corps & unions eyeing new development, not only freeway -*2X MORE PRO-BOULEVARD RESPONSES* We may actually do it! 1/3

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No city ever became great by thinking small & fearing change. Milwaukee, now's your chance to become great - take it. #ReThink794

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2 months

Listen I also think most contemporary architecture leaves something to be desired, but if we RETVRN it should be to pre-war architecture. And don't get me wrong - brutalist design can be really cool & interesting, but that doesn't change that they're hostile to daily human life.

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In the 1960s, Milwaukee purposely destroyed Bronzeville, its "Black Wall Street," with highways and urban renewal. In 2022, the New York Times covered how MKE's black community rebuilt it by themselves. Quick🧵on how they did it and how neighborhoods in your city can too (1/17)

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@joneilldrawings does these fantastic nearish-future drawings of Milwaukee. Check em out (w/ their explanations) 🧵

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Milwaukee is one of the hottest markets in the country and nobody anywhere else realizes that fact.

@BullandBaird

Michael Antonelli

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Don’t sleep on the Midwest ⁦ @conorsen ⁩

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Milwaukee's Hop L Line (in green) goes from one end to another in 12 minutes, every 20 minutes. If one wait more than 4 minutes, they'll get there faster *walking.* A case study on the America's obsession with streetcars, racism, and over-deliberating🧵

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Addis Ababa Light Rail, Ethopia. ~20 mi of mostly grade-separated tramway. Opened in 2015. A good example of chosing the wrong tool for the job. Overcrowding and an unproven design led to more than half of trams unoperable by 2023. Started w/ 6 min headways, now 20 min+ waits

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Milwaukee is on track to be the best biking city in the western hemisphere well before the end of the decade.

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Here's that growth in chart form. 2024 is obviously based on planned projects, there's likely to be even more (like half of the 2023 bike lanes were surprises)

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@LinkofSunshine Fun Fact: the box isn't actually black, that's a cloth tarp they drape over the whole thing. It's actually a very modest sandstone cube. Inside there's a holy space that dates back to ~635 after it was reconstructed post Umayyad invasion. Very modest, but must feel so holy there.

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Milwaukee looks like it's about to get a new tallest skyscraper... ...and it might even be the tallest mass timber building in the world! Short 🧵

@tannervandera

Tanner Van Dera ®

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Oh baby this is the type of spicy hopium I needed this morning -- go Neutral Project go! 🏗️

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i’m trying to imagine a situation where i would be able to keep my professional integrity and also say “the majority of new york” is 300 people out of 19.8 million

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At its current average speed of 9.6 MPH, the hop would take almost exactly an hour to reach the airport. Even if you could cut it down to 2/3ds, it wouldn't compete with the 15m drive, 20m coach express, or 30m local bus. Not the right mode - improve buses, then do heavy rail.

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Kevin

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Extending The Hop to the airport should be top priority. No excuses.

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3) Focus Older buildings spent all their exterior budget on 1 or 2 sides. (📸1 + 2) Modern buildings often spend close to the same amount on the front as they do on the alleyways. (📸3 + 4)

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But this doesn't mean we still can't build beautiful... 📸1. is Chevy Chase Lakes, just outside D.C. We have the skills. 📸2. is from Poland, where regulation is lighter, so new traditional architecture is common. LESSON 1: If we loosen regulation, we can build like we used to

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@BirdmanAnderson 1) Wrong state buddy 2) Murder rate in Minneapolis has been on a slow, but steady decline 3) Yes rates are much higher 2020 & since, but that's literally everywhere in the country.

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If 7 or 8 are chosen Tony Evers will need to call in the National Guard to do a reconstruction for Madison local govt.

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4 months

Madison pinpoints 8 sites for Amtrak station, drops airport and UW from consideration | Tap on the picture to learn more 🔽

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Ironic this is the photo used. I've yet to see a photo of I-794 with any amount of serious traffic during rush hour. Not even congestion, just traffic. I haven't found one!

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Wisconsin vacation towns be like: Lake Geneva, Door County, Rhinelander, & Wisconsin Dells

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@Royal_Greenwich Terrible to make people homeless because of this. Just fine the developer heavily and move on with it.

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I found it. I won. The biggest gap. 6.5 hours more via transit over driving in San Juan, PR.

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7 months

How are the Apostle Islands not already a national park?

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There's also a slew of wonky process changes. There isn't a lot of NIMBYism in Milwaukee, especially in the government - but the time saved from eliminating these unnecessary meetings will certainly encourage development. Remember, time is money!

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What could've been. This project was good to go, all financed by a huge international developer, but the post office refused to move to the airport. SMH.

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POV: you arrive in Milwaukee by train and walk out of the station

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@BowTiedRealty Don't get me wrong, it's cool as hell - I hope it happens. It just obviously won't is all.

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There also some new design requirements. Some are very simple and impose minimal costs to developers. These are good, they'll create a much more aesthetically pleasing city.

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Five-over-ones can be beautiful, don't let anyone tell you otherwise - #2 is even affordable/LIHTC!

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Great examples of how Tradified 5-over-1s turn out in the real world. Look like shit. To those who say 5-over-1s can look like Haussmannian Paris: "Anything is possible when you don't know what you're talking about." No one who says that has ever done it, or even tried.

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Despite some minor nitpicks, this proposed zoning code update is transformational - if passed as is, it will be *the most ambitious zoning code in the country.* This proposal is likely to be codified in late 2024. Read the proposal in full:

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So @Brewers proposed this beautiful stadium right on Water St. in the 90's, but now we can't even get a couple bars? What's going on, Mark?!

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New single-stair small apartment planned for Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. We need these everywhere.

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@CAChalmers_ Not you, the person you're quote tweeting

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4) Education The list of schools that teach traditional architecture is *very* small. (📸 1 - the list is only *a little* incomplete). The standard is modern architecture, because that's what people know how to do. So when people try, it often doesn't look good... (📸 2)

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin 📍 Believe it or not, these photos are of *the same exact place.* It's no coincidence that this area was home to the city's biggest & most prosperous black & Jewish communities.

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