adrian m fine

@adrianfine

supposedly Silicon Valley. marketing , former mayor

Palo Alto, CA
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  1. Jul 25

    Great piece ⁦⁦⁩. It’s so sad that Palo Alto wastes such enormous opportunity, education, dynamism and vitality. Palo Alto raised me to share opportunities, not hoard them.

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  2. Jul 21

    "If California fails to offer young people and newcomers the opportunity to improve their lot, the consequences will be catastrophic... a spectacular run of almost unbroken prosperity could be killed by a miserly approach to opportunity."

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  3. Jul 16

    To put this in context, city planning staff said it would be demoralizing to conduct the appeal and the results will be fruitless, but the council decided to go ahead. It’s like not doing your homework and then complaining that the test is too hard.

    The City of Palo Alto is using valuable resources to appeal our affordable housing needs. Sign here to oppose Palo Alto's appeal and join our vision for a more inclusive, affordable city:
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    Jul 16

    The City of Palo Alto is using valuable resources to appeal our affordable housing needs. Sign here to oppose Palo Alto's appeal and join our vision for a more inclusive, affordable city:

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  5. Jul 3

    The whole thread is worth reading but this is a central point: a California city is realistically estimating how many planned homes will actually be built, and it’s 3.5%.

    In effect, LA's housing plan assumes that it will realize (as new housing units) only 3.5% of aggregate zoned density of its sites. San Diego, by contrast, assumed that it will realize 90% of zoned density. 11/n
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  6. Jun 30

    via

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  7. Jun 26

    via

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  8. Jun 14

    “Will this fit me sweetie? No? Will this fit me *on zoom*?”

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    Jun 13

    Awesome. The new pedestrian and bike bridge is finished!

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  10. Jun 11

    Who Gets the Streets Now? The restaurants who needed them to survive? The humans who endured the pandemic city? Or their old owners, cars?

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    Jun 9

    What should Palo Alto do with 60 acres of land next to CalTrain, buses, El Camino Real, and downtown? Join us on Monday at 8pm to ask City Council to support Alternative 3, the option with the most homes, open space, and density for affordability!

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  12. Jun 5

    Also please read all the other quote tweets

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  13. Jun 5

    Unfortunately this diagram and narrative is pretty spot on.

    new infographic: The NIMBY Ratchet.
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  14. May 22

    This is a really good summary and fair criticism of decades of bad Bay Area housing decisions

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    Last but not least was a fiery rejoinder from Mayor Dave Hudson of San Ramon, who (correctly) called out not just SF but the entire West Bay, going back 25 years for their continued refusal to address their massive jobs:housing imbalance.
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  15. May 12

    Excellent piece. Well worth reading what our neighbors have done to tackle the housing crisis, and what they think of our lackluster efforts.

    Silicon Valley’s housing struggles show that the fight 4 racial justice won’t just be waged on the streets but in city halls across the Bay Area ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩
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  16. May 11

    Housing politics in Palo Alto 2021: we should think outside the box and build new homes in open space, not our existing neighborhoods. Also: struggling cities like Palo Alto can’t be counted on to build affordable housing without someone paying us.

    Facing an obligation to plan for more than 6K new residences over the next decade, leaders have set their sights on commercial centers to meet their housing goals.
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  17. May 10

    Supply and demand work. Who would’ve thunk. Just the latest in a long series of urban/land use economic studies showing that building more home results in lower housing prices.

    Building market-rate homes in low-income areas reduces nearby rents. Recent scholarship has used new fine-grained datasets to show that market-rate homebuilding leads to lower rents and reduced displacement at the neighborhood level More homes are good!
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    May 9
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    Redwood City is doing a great job with the housing crisis, which in turn helps local small businesses.

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  19. May 8

    “... that existed well before the last decade when tech giants like Google, Apple and Facebook added tens of thousands of jobs to the area.”

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  20. May 8

    “The proliferation of new apartments in downtown Redwood City is a stark contrast to other Peninsula cities, where single-family home zoning and anti-development politics have combined to exacerbate a housing shortage..”

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