Ok, good point - the people who are objecting based on “the environment!” are not actually environmentalists, they’re just NIMBYs and landlords.

Perhaps with an easier zoning process, developers other than Danco will be willing to build here.Even a Danco building is better than being homeless.

That issue is why we have Regional Housing Need Allocations (RHNA) and cities are no longer allowed to roadblock development with the excuse that “somewhere else will build it” - …

I mean, most developed nations have declining populations, so there does seem to be a tipping point. This country also has a birth rate below replacement levels, but unlike most …

When I worked down in G-ville, there was a white headed woodpecker who would peck quite loudly on the telephone pole outside the house where I stayed. Working nights, that …

To be of useBY MARGE PIERCYThe people I love the bestjump into work head firstwithout dallying in the shallowsand swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem …

I understand this position and it makes sense as far as it goes. And i’m painfully aware of the state mandate that every community in CA is required to grow …

Recently visited the Ironbound neighborhood of New Jersey. Lousy with Portuguese people, markets, and restaurants. The seafood was excellent! Is there anyone preparing good Portuguese food in this area?

Ok then, what would be an acceptable way to answer your question? Or was it a rhetorical question?

Does anyone know the fee for an STR ?

It doesn’t guarantee affordable housing (not the role of zoning), but it does incentivize it.

Duplicating past wasteful errors would be building more suberbs, not densifying housing in an already developed area.Also, local government is required by the state to zone for more housing. We …

Right. And nothing is more liberating (in this context anyway) than the realization that nature IS your creator; not some god beset with dissociative identity disorder.

Higher density populations correlate with better human health: https://www.cdc.gov/rural-h…And much better environmental health: linkSprawl is also expensive for cities and contributes to overall inequity:https://youtu.be/7IsMeKl-Sv…

As soon as the bond measure hits the ballot.Especially since few people in Bayside and McKinleyville will be emotionally invested in tall buildings in Arcata.The sad thing is that a …

If you want a meme in a similar vein directed to god, I’ve always liked this one. LOLhttps://uploads.disquscdn.c…

Fixed it.

“Not a God brother,”Actually, your post was an archetype of god-bothering.God botherer (plural God botherers) (UK, slang, derogatory) A person who persistently promotes religious beliefs to others, even when unwelcome. …

I am! Comfortable denouncing religion that is.I understand religion as an excuse to concentrate power under the banner of heaven, and as a perennial excuse used to make it okay …

“When you ask Santa for a puppy” is the way I heard it.

I figured you’d appreciate it.Check out the other “True Facts” videos available by him, too.

An easy hypocrisy smell test when dealing with sensitive topics like religion, race, gender or political affiliations, is to swap these identifiers in the statement. If interchanging ‘white’ for ‘black’ …

READ Galatians

Stop

No argument from me about landlords, but no one EVER addresses the question of limits to growth- either locally or on a global scale. So if these housing units deal …

as Bob Dylan said ” You gotta seve somebody .

I’m so thankful that’s not the God I serve. He’s not the God father , but the father God.

But woves do exist Curly, and you might be too busy riding your bike when someone has to fight one.

Good stuff.

It’s the people who have to fear their god’s punishment in order to be good moral citizens and neighbors who scare me the most.