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🕯 In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. 🕯 Alchemist. Sacred things, making things, 📸 , kalopsía. 🕯 The map is mostly water. 🌜 I make: http://gojs.net 

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    Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris Mar 23

    It should be more concerning that the most photographed street in America is illegal to build. It should keep politicians up at night. We should all walk around with a little bit of embarrassment until it is solved.pic.twitter.com/h6jGtxxFRH

    6:18 AM - 23 Mar 2021
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      2. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris Mar 23

        People in politics speak of "tourism" and increasing it but they do not seem to understand what the words they are saying actually mean. They don't seem to understand what speaks to people's hearts, what people consider romance, etc. It's all profoundly odd to watch.

        8 replies 28 retweets 878 likes
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      3. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris Mar 23

        Simon Sarris Retweeted Inderinsider

        I actually think its the opposite. If people built beautiful housing there would be a thousand times fewer NIMBYs. For some reason the YIMBY people cannot accept that so many people are against new development because new development is deeply ugly.https://twitter.com/Inderinsider/status/1374375850481569793 …

        Simon Sarris added,

        Inderinsider @Inderinsider
        Replying to @simonsarris
        Not In My Pretty Hamlet?
        24 replies 40 retweets 658 likes
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      4. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris Mar 23

        Simon Sarris Retweeted Simon Sarris

        mentioned obliquely before in this threadhttps://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1227995798622949377 …

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        Simon Sarris @simonsarris
        A start is to live publicly in a way that you think other people should live. Don't call yourself pro-natalist, instead have children, post about them, celebrate them and be excited about others. Don't say YIMBY, instead show your vision for a prettier city.
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        3 replies 1 retweet 168 likes
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      5. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris Mar 23

        Simon Sarris Retweeted Arthur Chu

        This guy is wrong: minimum setbacks, lot size + parking reqs, and roads based on turning radius of American fire trucks are why this is illegal. The ADA is why its not *affordable*, but that's very different, and the ADA does actually allow some walkups.https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1374457816774156295 …

        Simon Sarris added,

        Arthur ChuVerified account @arthur_affect
        All these people happily RTing and liking not knowing the federal law he's talking about is the ADA https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1374349901425995783 …
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        11 replies 15 retweets 273 likes
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      6. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris Mar 23

        You actually only need one ground floor accessible unit to be ADA compliant. Even any mixed use building that wants to be ADA can provide at least one apartment on the first floor in addition to the upper floors. This removes the elevator requirement. Ex:https://rjohnthebad.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/thresholds-for-the-single-stair-walk-up-building/ …

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      7. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris Mar 23

        Obviously you gotta take big concessions on design, including apartment size, lest sprinkler systems and elevators and corridors come to wreck your budget. But that's not why they're illegal, just why no one will build the things in between. Which means less housing for everyone.

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      8. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris Mar 23

        Simon Sarris Retweeted Simon Sarris

        https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1295778479661883394 …

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        Simon Sarris @simonsarris
        Sad YIMBYs don't get that every ugly building made is the construction of a new hurdle to making anything after it. An 80 year history of not caring about the aesthetic product is a big part of the reason people are NIMBY. They look around and see new = ugly, and they're right. https://twitter.com/colinmort/status/1295757016405770245 …
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      9. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris Mar 23

        Simon Sarris Retweeted First Panda in Space

        I don't think that's true. Any community that successfully builds a new neighborhood as beautiful and cherished as beacon hill will make plenty of money. Not many people are trying. Some are! They are mostly village sized and not in cities, because zoninghttps://twitter.com/nub/status/1374521849715953677 …

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        First Panda in Space @nub
        Replying to @simonsarris
        NIMBYs don't care about how things look. They say they do but they are trying to protect their investment that has 4x'd in the last decade. New housing threatens that.
        3 replies 2 retweets 80 likes
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      10. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris Mar 23

        Simon Sarris Retweeted Casey Kreie  🚲

        I think their purpose was actually to let people avoid the horse poop in the middle better.https://twitter.com/caseykreie/status/1374540542424547330 …

        Simon Sarris added,

        Casey Kreie  🚲 @caseykreie
        Replying to @simonsarris
        I've always wondered. Those "sidewalks" on the sides are so tiny I assume that's not their purpose. Is the concept to move water down the street away from houses?
        7 replies 0 retweets 53 likes
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      11. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris Apr 1

        In Somerville MA (pop 80K) there are exactly 22 residential buildings that meet the city's zoning code. Every single other home is too dense to be legal. The typical Somerville home goes for 800K.https://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/ …

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      12. Simon Sarris‏ @simonsarris Apr 1

        In San Francisco 34% of buildings (54% of homes) would be illegal to build today. Not because of safety laws or the ADA, but because of zoning laws around density. Yet San Francisco is a city and not a suburb precisely because of this density.https://sfzoning.deapthoughts.com/illegal_homes.html …

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