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The code is a legal requirement. If the code did not set mandatory minimum widths for parking stalls, builders could still set them at 9 feet wide. The point is that if you are bui…

I'm just saying that people should have the choice to build a building without parking if they think that it makes more sense to use the ground floor for other things. Currently, t…

I don't really like being called dishonest, there's a pretty broad literature showing the potential gains of cross ventilation even with a small amount of wind. It's extremely rare…

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Yes - this proves my point - both of those 3 bedroom floor plans are for corner units. They have windows on two sides because they are corner units. In a podium building you only h…

Sure. One thing we could do is waive requirements about how wide parking stalls need to be, and parking aisles, and how many parking spaces you need, and then let builders make tho…

The far bigger danger to kids from an abuse perspective is the adult driver in the front seat and from a safety perspective is the poor average quality of human driving. And a self…

The garage sits underneath the housing in this case.

Right, the difference is you can see from charts of miles driven by Waymo etc. that the technology is clearly ready. If it was not ready they would not have been able to raise mone…

When was the last time you looked at a chart of Waymo passenger miles driven?

My sense is that parents are pretty tired of driving their kids to and from things and if it was possible for your kids to take a self driving car to school or to activities or to …

It's extraordinarily difficult, and expensive, to convert parking garage space to housing - the heights are different, it's not designed with the same egresses, the floor material …

You've got this backwards - big elevators with union labor mean that they're an expensive undertaking that only large multifamily buildings can afford. Smaller, more affordable ele…

The Maxis offices are about two hundred yards from this site!

I'm Googling for "Des Moines apartments" and clicking on any that I find that have double loaded corridors and so far I'm 0 for 4 on finding any that have a three bedroom apartment…

Walnut Creek is in PG&E territory where peak hour energy is 54 cents/kwh right now. And the difference is A/C is paid by the renter not the building owner. If you want to address c…

With respect, people who drive used cars are not renting brand new apartments in downtown Walnut Creek. It does not make sense to mandate parking standards in new buildings that as…

The point is the city's parking code assumes that every car has a human driver that needs to park and then exit the car. This informs the choices about how wide the spaces and how …

If I'm reading this right that only lets you set the application name, not a specific profile inside the browser.

The confidential information will be the detailed financial statements.

This is why I adjusted SF’s offer for population and then multiplied it by 50%, then used 400 million as the base for financing. Financing at 4% interest is not the expensive part …

This has not been the case with the three operators in the Bay Area - Santa Clara, Palo Alto, and Alameda.

Bankruptcy would not help because you’d still have some entity managing the entire coverage area. The gain comes from creating a market for lemons.