Idea for fixing the housing shortage

[Jeremi]

In my experience people are, not unreasonably, very likely to defer to their local fire department over their local planning department on fire safety. As practitioners and advocates it should be a priority for us to engage and bring along first responders because they are and, quite frankly, almost certainly always will be a group with higher public trust than we are. We're not going to win a public debate if the fire department is arguing against us, even if the data backs us up.

EDIT: Basically, we can't expect everyone to be familiar with building code practice in other parts of the world.

Firefighters are almost universally right wing cranks at this point and their opinions on architecture and urban planning must be discarded.

 

[Jeremi]

FDNY argued that congestion pricing would make firefighting in Manhattan impossible and that response times would increase and of course the opposite has happened.

 

[Jeremi]

Bill H.1542

malegislature.gov

There's a bill in the works that might get us closer to legalizing single-stair buildings!

Oh boy a study.

 

[JeffDowntown]

What the Seaport could have been in an alternate universe:

Car-free streets, geothermal heating and solar panels: Paris’s new eco-district – in pictures

Clichy-Batignolles, in the city’s north-west, is emblematic of the ‘15-minute’ city approach to urban planning

www.theguardian.com

 

[beck4537]

Are there any programs out right now that have incentives to redevelop underutilized suburban office parks? Every time I drive around the greater Boston area i see hundreds of these office parks sitting empty...

 

[Jeremi]

Are there any programs out right now that have incentives to redevelop underutilized suburban office parks? Every time I drive around the greater Boston area i see hundreds of these office parks sitting empty...

Cheaper to knock them down and start over.