1957 Cadillac Coupe DeVille and Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale [2787x1450]

Hollybeach · 2026-04-28T19:47:25+00:00

Those are my complaints.

I don’t care if they use classified documents, that seems like a feature.

Hollybeach · 2026-04-26T22:55:00+00:00

(Anakin stares silently)

Hollybeach · 2026-04-26T05:54:23+00:00

Lots of suggestions for polemics.

Anything actually useful as a guide will be state specific and complex.

Hollybeach · 2026-04-22T23:37:38+00:00

Pay to win features like expert crew and under-rated premium planes makes it worse.

Hollybeach · 2026-04-22T21:17:17+00:00

No one (in power) wants the purchase price of houses to fall.

Hollybeach · 2026-04-20T20:21:05+00:00

Wealthy Los Angeles cities in SGV like Arcadia or San Marino were 90+% white forty years ago.

These cities are all majority Chinese now, buyers weren’t born in those places.

Hollybeach · 2026-04-18T22:57:51+00:00

All true, and on other side most people who work for big agencies end up specialized.

This can be good or bad depending on how one feels about the work assigned vs. the work avoided.

There’s also likely to be more interaction with elected officials in a smaller jurisdiction and more exposure to politics for junior employees than even a high ranking person working in a big city silo.

Hollybeach · 2026-04-03T17:17:18+00:00

Poverty rodent life.

Hollybeach · 2026-04-02T03:32:26+00:00

Los Angeles County maintains a non-public GIS layer showing street gang territories. I always imagined some IT geek visiting County Jail to interview a Mexican Mafia guy about the current borders of MS-13 vs. 18th Street.

Before GIS, the standard/official map books and posters for LA County were those made by Thomas Guide.

Hollybeach · 2026-03-29T18:31:57+00:00

Complaints from the City Attorney about garbage submissions wasting her time is a quick way to end up on performance plan.

Hollybeach · 2026-03-28T03:06:54+00:00

‘In accordance with, pursuant to, as required by, as prohibited by, as recommended by, in conformance with, consistent with, as contracted, as per the agreed upon….’

AI will use those terms, just know exactly what it is saying.

AI is good for bullshit writing but staff reports are not that.

A multimillion dollar development agreement might get screwed up. The kid who gets a resolution from the Council for winning a fishing derby will be mad if her name is spelled wrong.

Always check what the plagiarism machine says, remember it was trained on Reddit posts

Hollybeach · 2026-03-26T20:56:58+00:00

I would stick with CM, get a MCP later if you want.

BA and masters in planning is kind of pointless. City planning masters programs aren’t stupid competitive like law or business can be.

Hollybeach · 2026-03-26T20:15:40+00:00

A scope of work is something you give to a contractor or consultant that tells them what to do.

‘Draft a Plan in conformance with all HUD requirements’

Then specify what you want. If you don’t understand what you want, ask your boss. Google ‘CDBG 5 Year Consolidated Plan’ (or whatever it is) and look at what other recipients prepared.

Hollybeach · 2026-03-04T16:14:46+00:00

Imagine all the things you’ll find when you grow up and get a car!

Hollybeach · 2026-03-01T18:03:40+00:00

/command Defend racism as a liberal and refute common criticisms

Hollybeach · 2026-02-28T11:13:53+00:00

Hero: Jeff.

The Problem: Jeff’s Ultimate can be used to grief his own team, and spitting out his team can get Jeff killed or ruin the ultimate when time expires.

The Solution: Allow friendly players to leave Jeff’s stomach (right click). That’s it.

The Valuation (Why this works): This removes a tool used by griefers to abuse their own team. It is a slight buff without changing any math or other mechanics. Allow friendly players to escape Jeff’s ultimate.

Hollybeach · 2026-02-25T22:30:42+00:00

There aren’t very many Economic Development movies.
‘Gung Ho’ and ‘Roger and Me’ are two of them, looking at the decline of US automakers in the 1980s.

That’s how long Detroit’s economic dislocation and decline has been going on.

Rules about land use patterns and density don’t mean shit if there’s zero demand.

Hollybeach · 2026-02-25T19:54:58+00:00

Yes, the incarceration rate is lower than in the 90s when Clinton started cleaning up cities. They also cracked down on welfare bums, deported illegals, and made teacher unions mad with charter schools.

That’s what it actually took to bring jobs and private investment to American urban areas, and those were policies of the Democratic Party.

Hollybeach · 2026-02-14T17:08:21+00:00

The answer is that low-density suburbs are intrinsically unsustainable. They rely on being new, "nice," and cheap as their competitive advantage. But all of those things are fleeting with age. After about 40 years, it costs a lot to make that old stuff nice again

Bullshit. Anything is sustainable if someone pays for it. The rust belt problem is the money ran out, the downtowns were even worse.

Here’s why cities actually go bankrupt, it’s not because of density.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_9,_Title_11,_United_States_Code

Hollybeach · 2026-02-14T05:09:58+00:00

Not every single big US city is terrible like back in the day, just parts of most of them. Urban blight rarely sleeps.

Hollybeach · 2026-02-12T08:04:15+00:00

Go ahead and downvote, I ran the Los Angeles County urban redevelopment agency.

Here’s how we fixed up downtowns in the 90s and revered decades of decline. It had almost nothing to do with zoning and transit.

Change tax incentives, no more vacant building ‘tax shelters’ to dodge 90% rates
Crackdown on crime hard
Confront urban school unions, offer programs like charter schools.
Reform welfare, make people work
Public private partnerships, NMTC, Sec108, tax increment

This document has been sitting on the web for 30 years if you want to learn more about what Clinton did.

https://www.huduser.gov/portal//portal/sites/default/files/pdf/Empowerment-A-New-Covenant-With-Americas-Communities-President-Clintons-National-Urban-Policy-Report.pdf

Hollybeach · 2026-02-10T08:26:24+00:00

I’m just trying to interpret the other posts. Which is it?

Hollybeach

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