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The 15-minute city debate keeps getting hijacked. It's not about banning cars — it's about not NEEDING one for a carton of milk.
Per the Metro Downtown Recovery Report, office-to-resident conversions are finally outpacing vacancies. Slowly. Very slowly.
This is what a street designed for people instead of cars looks like.
Genuinely curious what your city did that actually worked on rents — not the slogans, the specific policy. Trying to learn beyond my own bubble.
Worth reading the actual ridership study before forming a view. It complicates the easy take in both directions.
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City council approved the transit budget 7–2 last night. Full breakdown of what it funds — and the two dissents — in the report.
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Counterpoint to the optimism: zoning reform only helps if you also fix the permitting backlog. Otherwise you've just legalized buildings nobody can start.
I changed my mind on the upzoning after reading the vacancy numbers. Here's the part that moved me — and what I still doubt.
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Remote work is destroying cities. Anyone pretending otherwise is just ignoring reality.
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