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Tomorrow at 9AM, October 25th, RTA is voting on selling land next to the West Boulevard Station to a development firm intending to build Transit Oriented Development. Please support the effort here. https://www.riderta.com/events/2022/10/25/board-meeting

https://assets.adobe.com/public/7be50be8-b751-444b-5950-66f1d139ef81/Zoning Map/MC 2656 CPC Presentation.pptx Tomorrow City Planning is voting to changing the use, area & height districts of parcels of land north of Cedar Avenue between East 107th Street and Stokes Boulevard in order to increase housing typology and density to support public transit. Please email [email protected] to voice your support. Make sure to place "Map Change 2656" in the subject line.

Hi everyone, I am trying to find a yimby/urbanist cohort and would like to test the waters with a meet up. My buddy owns the Ohio Inn in Lakewood and was wondering if anyone would like to join me in a month or so for a few beers and urbanist banter?

Fantastic news but I worry that this will end up like battery park. Dense but not walk-able and still auto dependent.

The peninsulas of Scranton and Merwin would be perfect for Over The Rhine Style development. They were actually originally subdivided as such. I'll take whatever at this point though. Still feels too car dependent however.

Looks like Austin is struggling heavy with NIMBYS despite putting up record housing numbers. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/austin-affordable-housing-nimby/ A recent neighborhood fight demonstrates how the outsized influence of existing homeowners restricts supply in a city that badly needs 135,000 new homes.

Setbacks may be my single most hated municipal building restriction. Should we still make comment for that reason?

Is this a meeting that public opinion showing support for would be beneficial?

Thank you for bringing attention to this. I will make a comment and ask people not on this forum to do so.

It's more nuanced than that.

I think this is a misinterpretation of my comment. San Francisco is in the Top 15 cities for new development. But it is also the NIMBY capital of the country. You don’t need to stop all development to be absolutely encumbered by NIMBYism. E: Pardon, it was 18, but Los Angeles, another NIMBY strong hold is at 10. My comment is meant to be interpreted not that NIMBYs block all housing, but that they reduce supply to damaging results.

This is how it always starts. Almost every city with a NIMBY problem went through the same process. One neighborhood sees success and they begin to block housing to secure the success all to themselves but very few care because they are blocking housing in just one location. Then another neighborhood, and then another, and then another, until its the entire city. Every city that has experienced renewed success is seeing this. Which is essentially every city that experienced white flight. We thought it would never happen to rust belt cities but here we are. Pittsburgh went first, then Cincinnati last year. Cleveland and Detroit are up next if a pro housing voice doesn't show up.

Speaking of which. In state tuition is dummy expensive in Ohio. I paid half the amount in Florida.

Ever notice that introverts outnumber extroverts by an enormous margin? Even the Myers Brigg test marks me as an introvert.

I have a theory on this. One that everyone will disagree with. There's no such thing as introversion. Just social anxiety. In the tribal days of humanity there were equal and balancing forces. Social Anxiety, which kept a person in check for the health of the tribe, and the sense of belonging, to ensure the individual would remain in the tribe and and more likely to survive. These two forces were equal and opposite but provided balance. Modern society has removed the threat of death from the sense of belonging. Meaning that social anxiety can have full reign over a persons actions. Study after study after study routinely come to the same conclusion: those with full and rich social lives are the happiest people. Introverts are not introverts. They need people just as much as extroverts. They simply have succumbed to social anxiety. Single family exclusionary zoning has forced our society to fully indulge in our social anxiety. It's not a choice but a compulsion that we've let take over us. Just in the same way as obesity.

This largest reason I am such a huge urbanist. I had always felt so stranded and alone growing up. I went to college, a dense walkable community, and it evaporated. Meeting up and making plans were incredibly easy. The largest contributor of depression and loneliness in the United States is car dependent isolating housing.

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Those ads are just awful. The ads we need to be running in other states is "We believe in housing our residents."

The housing passed. 20 Some objections in person or in written letter. 1 letter of support. We're very lucky we have people in elected positions that understand expert opinion in urban planning. Jenny Spencer lessened her fight but still made clear objections to the project and refuted the attending residents were NIMBY. Ultimately she voted in favor. So I commend her for such. August Fluker made comment that Cleveland needs not cater to cars at every project. Slife maintained his stance on the project as a benefit to the city. The highlight comment, however, was Adam Davenport iterating that parking is not and should not be an obstacle to building housing. Going on to state clearly, maintaining ratios and counting dwelling units is a pseudoscience and not often helpful when assessing a housing project. The most interesting information of his comment was that Downtown has not had parking minimums since the 1970s and yet there remains a staggering amount of parking spaces. Watch the meeting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfTt91mZ8RY

What's the status on the Urban Form Overlay the city was attempting to roll out soon?

Here is the contact to support the construction: Room 514, City Hall Contact: Michael Bosak Phone: 216.664.3802 Email: [email protected] Please email to support housing.

I really believe this to be survivorship bias. The cheap poorly built houses from 110 years ago, which were the majority of housing back then, did not survive to today where we would have witnessed their failure. They failed decades prior.

I think this is a perfect example of survivorship bias. https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/against-the-survival-of-the-prettiest/#:~:text=The survivorship bias theory about,ones%2C all else being equal

September 16th at 9 am there will be a planning meeting on several development projects. The most notable being West 73rd Street Apartments which was blocked over fear of "not enough parking" and "over crowding". It is my opinion these people have climbed the ladder in a neighborhood that was successful in repairing its blight but would like to pull that ladder up behind them and deny others the ability to enjoy the same prosperity. See details below. https://planning.clevelandohio.gov/designreview/drcagenda/2022/PDF/CPC-Agenda-WebEx-meeting-091622.pdf

This thread has the intent to catalogue municipal meetings that urbanists should know about and attend to voice their opinions. Over the past few decades, the only people showing up to these meetings have been those with incentives to keep housing scarce, low density, and automobile dependent at the detriment of society at large, and in many cases, themselves. A commonly cited reason as to why urbanists and the pro-housing do not attend these meetings is that they are unaware these meetings are happening at all or until it is too late. Hopefully this thread may rectify some of this issue. Please post meetings that urbanists should attend. Thank you