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Colorado legislature weakens housing bill. Allows cities to require 0.5 parking spaces per unit, even near transit. More weakening to come. https://coloradosun.com/2023/04/18/colorado-land-use-housing-bill/
Housing density requirements dramatically pared back in Colorado governor’s major land-use use bill

Senate Bill 213 was amended Tuesday to build more support for the measure among lawmakers and to ensure the legislation’s passage out of its first committee

The Colorado Sun
Are there any national organizations that are supporting teachers who are targeted by anti-LGBT extremist groups for being supportive of LGBT students?

RIP Wayne Shorter, dead at 89, one of the greatest saxophonists of all time.

Here he is with Weather Report playing Birdland.

A masterpiece.

#WayneShorter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fm10whccto

Birdland

YouTube
Reading road diet threads on Nextdoor, it's amazing how drivers who never see any pedestrians on the sidewalks constantly see pedestrians jumping out unexpectedly in front of them in the traffic lanes.

certified Pastrami moment

#CatsOfMastodon #cat #cats

"...the inner-city motorway... arguably changed postwar cities as fundamentally as modernist architects’ tower blocks. Here was an entirely new type of street, one that did away with shop fronts, pedestrians, chance encounters or indeed anything recognisably human-scale. For the first time in centuries of urban life, a street was not a public realm, just a conduit between private spaces."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/13/londons-lost-mega-motorway-the-eight-lane-ring-road-that-would-have-destroyed-much-of-the-city

#highways #thewaroncars #bancars #cars #cities

London’s lost mega-motorway: the eight-lane ring road that would have destroyed much of the city

In the car-crazed 1960s, planners came up with a scheme to slash through the capital’s inner suburbs with huge freeways. Only fragments were ever built – but they tell of a fate narrowly avoided

The Guardian
DOCTOR: This condition shouldn’t stop you from living a normal life
ME: So what is stopping me then

Family: *starts fighting*

Me, *sobbing*: Can we please not do this now, during Honda's Biggest Sale of the Year?

First toot so might as well share some pictures of the #trains at the #florida gold coast #railroad museum