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All that pompous sounding legalese can still be ambiguous! I feel less bad for not understanding contracts that have 100 word compound sentences.
Legal people can't keep up with our tech jargon but they have their own jargon including "predicate" lol. So same logical thinking, different jargon framework.
Question: why do they want the schema not the data?
Kurt posted this to troll me. Just know my audience here was, mostly, non-technical people involved in politics in my local Chicagoland municipality. Permit me a PSA about local politics: engaging in national politics is bleak and dispiriting, like being a gnat bouncing off the glass plate window of a skyscraper. Local politics is, by contrast, extremely responsive. I've gotten things done --- including a law passed…
> Local politics is, by contrast, extremely responsive. I've gotten things done --- including a law passed You live in a country where local governments have the power to make laws… in a lot of other countries they don’t - or, to be more precise, their lawmaking power is extremely limited. Actually, even in the US, that’s often true too - only local governments with “home rule” can enact laws on any topic (provided i…
Voters significantly underestimate their power even up to the House level; AOC’s first campaign was very scrappy and resulted in a bartender unseating the chair of the Congressional Democrat Caucus and likely successor to Nancy Pelosi, and that was the first campaign in which anyone bothered to primary him.
It's easy to imagine a scenario where the city decides to develop a specific software in-house and hide the "biases" in the source code, or any other thing one might not find desirable.
Hell, they don't even need to make everything from scratch! Could just patch and use a permissively licensed 3rd-party component.
In my opinion, the proposed amendment does not go far enough.
Since there is no contact method on the website, figured I'd mention it in a comment; hope this helps
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The categorical elimination of single-family zoning along with any building envelope restrictions that would make as-of-right 3-flats uneconomical.
It's might actually be easier to win the economics battle by chipping away at restrictions on taller buildings. The builders in my area are copy/pasting a 3-flat design all over the place but it requires bargain-basement land prices (literally building on former toxic waste dumps) or money from the township because 3-flats make you have to build wide.
That very little can economically be built on existing SFZ lots even with relaxed zoning is actually a feature, not a bug, for getting this done. People want change to be slow. At least to begin with, it's better strategically if it takes a couple years and gradual tweaking to make lots of building happen.
Interesting takeaways from me: All that pompous sounding legalese can still be ambiguous! I feel less bad for not understanding contracts that have 100 word compound sentences. Legal people can't keep up with our tech jargon but they have their own jargon including "predicate" lol. So same logical thinking, different jargon framework. Question: why do they want the schema not the data?
I got to about 1/3rd of the way before I noticed my eyes were kinda struggling to read the article. Toggling different CSS rules, it's the #333 gray color. Turning that off is instantly better. The custom font is much thinner than the default, but that by itself doesn't seem to be the issue if the color is (closer to) black. (There is also a font-weight rule, but toggling it makes no visual difference in Firefox. May…
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