Act 2: Yucaipa is running a structural deficit and is considering a ballot initiative to raise the sales tax. www.sbsun.com/2024/09/30/y...www.latimes.com/environment/... (Act 1, never discussed: Prop 13.)
The places with the worst challenges, I think, are South Asia where they are on the cusp of wet bulb temperature problems. (The Persian Gulf was already there.) But really there are not many places comfortably inhabitable without heating or cooling.
I would say the reality is every city is optimized for annual mean temperature X and standard deviation Y, and every place will need to reoptimize for X+4 F and something like 1.1Y
If we’re talking the region maybe downtown Riverside? If LA I’m really not sure but jt would have to be something out there like San Pedro or Panorama City or Reseda.
My coworker got windows he can control from his phone. I don’t think they’re common by any means here but they exist. I was actually just thinking about it in the context of wildfires here - to be able to close your windows remotely would be really helpful.
OC Vibe construction underway in Anaheim, including plans for over 2,000 apartments. It’s pretty pathetic that nowhere in LA County has plans as even as ambitious as the modest redevelopment in Orange County. I guess maybe Inglewood? www.ocregister.com/2024/09/04/a...
The $4 billion development will create “the new heart of Orange County” with new performance venues, OCVibe officials say.
It’s usually not the best way to do political activism but ultimately engineers and code writers like to think of themselves (ourselves) as scientific people so if anyone can be persuaded by good technical analysis it should be us!
This is really great!
I’ve posted my hourlong presentation from NFPA’s single-stair symposium. The speaker notes contain my almost verbatim narration. Feel free to grab from it for any noncommercial purpose, and email me (stephen@centerforbuilding.org) if you have any questions. docs.google.com/presentation...
NFPA single-exit symposium Stephen Smith stephen@centerforbuilding.org September 12, 2024 Quincy, MA Hello everybody. My name is Stephen Smith, I am the executive director of the Center for Building i...
I’ve posted my hourlong presentation from NFPA’s single-stair symposium. The speaker notes contain my almost verbatim narration. Feel free to grab from it for any noncommercial purpose, and email me (stephen@centerforbuilding.org) if you have any questions. docs.google.com/presentation...
NFPA single-exit symposium Stephen Smith stephen@centerforbuilding.org September 12, 2024 Quincy, MA Hello everybody. My name is Stephen Smith, I am the executive director of the Center for Building i...
Also worth noting that many of the same people now saying we should have the density on main boulevards are the same people (or intellectual, or sometimes actual, heirs) who made that impossible in the 1980s with Measure U.
Is Los Angeles in a housing crisis or not? Why do we keep calling it a crisis and then not doing the sorts of things you do in a crisis? www.latimes.com/homeless-hou...
With a key vote coming on a bid to rezone Los Angeles to add 250,000 more homes, city officials released a long-awaited report on the history of exclusionary zoning.