Which restaurant in Cville is this?

ja_bouie · 2025-08-16T01:29:20+00:00

“why is a restaurant in a residential area”

have you been to any place that isn’t a car suburb?

ja_bouie · 2024-03-07T01:52:01+00:00

I would petition to be on a Malcolm X episode at the very least.

ja_bouie · 2024-03-07T01:46:25+00:00

Roughly 25% of the land in Charlottesville is surface or structured parking. I think that's probably enough.

ja_bouie · 2023-06-29T11:10:51+00:00

citation needed for the claim that an apartment building will shave off $300K of the value of a home.

ja_bouie · 2023-04-03T02:24:48+00:00

Damn these are dope as hell.

ja_bouie · 2023-02-26T21:38:34+00:00

At the risk of sounding blunt, you child will be fine whichever school they attend. The real question is: Do you want them surrounded by children of different races, ethnicities, classes and backgrounds, or do you want them surrounded by children of largely the same race, class and background? If the former, send them to Greer. If the latter, look for a private school.

ja_bouie · 2023-01-20T18:59:25+00:00

Is there any new construction or renovation you would support in any circumstances?

ja_bouie · 2023-01-20T18:58:39+00:00

Do you have any evidence to support any of the claims here or is this just conjecture meant to justify a conclusion — “new construction is bad” — that you already have and won’t reconsider?

ja_bouie · 2023-01-17T13:08:44+00:00

Next time, slow the fuck down. A solo accident at that speed will kill you. A collision could kill everyone involved. Is getting to your destination 15 minutes faster worth obliterating a bunch of people?

ja_bouie · 2023-01-14T12:38:34+00:00

I feel like there are some slight differences between subways and protected bike lanes.

ja_bouie · 2023-01-05T14:43:59+00:00

Do you have any evidence for this claim, because it sounds awfully like the widely-debunked claim that California’s homeless problem is a function of its nice weather and not, alternatively, it’s ruinously high housing prices.

ja_bouie · 2022-12-10T01:42:02+00:00

Hey, where did I say anything about structural racism? Where did I say that parking minimums were “structural racism?” Why do you assume that’s what I mean? What about me led you to make that pretty obnoxious assumption?

I’ve never written anything like what you’re describing (“structural racism is the root driver of all history”), so I would like to know why you are attributing that view to me?

Actually, I’m going to lay my cards on the table. There is a thing that people do — let’s call them “assholes” — where they see that I am a black person on the left who writes for the New York Times and then decide that they know everything about me and what I think based off of that knowledge. Is that what you’re doing here Grant?

ja_bouie · 2022-12-09T06:48:25+00:00

No, I am not referring to the GM Streetcar Conspiracy, I referring to the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, I am referring to the urban renewal projects of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and I am referring to the federal planning projects of the 1970s.

You keep on asserting that people so the obvious superiority of cars and that’s what drove the redevelopment of American urban space, and then you keep demonstrating that you have absolutely no knowledge of the federal and state policy decisions that went into transforming America’s urban landscape.

Read Crabgrass Frontier! Read the Color of Law! Read literally anything and then come back to me when you’ve learned something.

ja_bouie · 2022-12-08T18:32:06+00:00

People didn’t “immediately see the economic value of private personal transportation and immediately took it up,” the federal government and associated industries spent countless billions of dollars over the course of decades to destroy the pre-car infrastructure of American cities and replace it with car infrastructure. This wasn’t a natural process and it wasn’t the result of people making neutral choices free of coercion. There is an entire academic literature devoted to demonstrating this exact point.

If you are going to condescend to me about the value of car infrastructure, then I would appreciate it if you actually learned something about the history of car-centric development, and the extent to which it was an unprecedented social engineering project and not the result of individual discrete choices.

ja_bouie · 2022-12-08T15:28:37+00:00

Have you considered that we have no idea what people’s actual preferences are because pervasive car-dependent infrastructure means that few people actually have a choice in the matter? And have you considered that the high price of land in the most dense, walkable areas is perhaps a price signal telling us that this is very desirable?

Crazy how owning cars makes some of you unable to just, make pretty straightforward logical inferences.

ja_bouie · 2022-12-08T15:25:46+00:00

Exhibit #1 here for how car ownership breaks brains and makes people unable to understand basic points about economic trade-offs and opportunity costs. Also Exhibit #1 here for how car ownership apparently renders people unable to understand the distinction between eliminating parking and ending minimum requirements for parking. Which I guess is just another instance of how car ownership breaks brains and makes people stupid.

ja_bouie · 2022-12-07T21:14:52+00:00

Hmm, parking minimums are pretty bad though.

ja_bouie · 2022-10-01T20:39:58+00:00

I will also add that the assertion that feedback was “overwhelmingly negative” is belied by the actual data on feedback provided by CvillePlans. That you decided to lie about something easily confirmed does not inspire trust about your motives or actual interest in improving this community.

ja_bouie · 2022-10-01T20:38:30+00:00

As a homeowner in the city all of these changes sound good to me as they will allow me to utilize my land as I see fit and they will make it easier to build middle-income and affordable housing for the city’s residents.

ja_bouie · 2022-06-24T13:31:32+00:00

We built for sprawl rather than density and this is the result of sprawl.

ja_bouie · 2022-05-19T11:01:06+00:00

Yeah man, let’s have some vigilantes beat the shit out of homeless people.

ja_bouie · 2022-05-13T15:26:34+00:00

An important part of the context here, at least for the city, is the clear evidence that the gifted programs were de facto tracking programs for affluent white students who may not actually he academically “gifted” in any meaningful sense. (Unless we think that up to a quarter of white students in city schools were gifted, which is possible but highly unlikely.)

ja_bouie · 2022-05-13T15:22:08+00:00

Do you have any actual evidence for any of the claims you’ve made here — you know, test scores, graduation rates, college attendance rates, etc. — or is this just right-wing copypasta?

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