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Do market rate parking downtown! (And perhaps along some of our shopping corridors without paid parking of any kind!)

As a St Paul young'un I love to hear me some new gossipy lore

It's rough. Even the trails along the rivers, some of our few separated paths, are often in bad repair and bumpy, or too narrow for pedestrians and cyclists to comfortably coexist!

If said film adaptation doesn't have 20 minutes describing a bronze shield engraving I'll be throwing my ICEE at the screen

What if you spilled coffee on your Swarovski Shrek

Didn't Paraguay have a bizarre post-revolutionary period for South America? Ole Dr. Francia was an unusual guy

"Like a well-meaning surgeon who botches an operation, planners were (correctly) blamed for the excesses of urban renewal and many other problems then facing American cities. But the planning baby was thrown out with the urban-renewal bathwater."

Compare that to Kier Starmer, who revealed that despising your core voter groups (calling Britain an "island of strangers" in reference to immigrants, throwing trans folks under the bus etc) and aiming for the Volk instead was electoral suicide

At least CA cities raised development fees to make up the prop tax shortfall! Nope, I don't see a single deleterious effect from these policies.

Genuinely embarrassing to bring friends and family here when they have to take transit/drive on with West 7th or Shepherd Rd.

Genuinely had someone ask, when I mentioned that West 7th was being rebuilt, "does it really need it?" Change is so frightening to some folks it baffles the mind

Those gosh darned pecan trees

The 15-minute city where one can easily walk to the pharmacy or a functioning constitutional order

Low relative salaries attract the already wealthy, the civically minded weirdos, or the regular weirdos whose main concern is imposing their psychology on the rest of us (also often wealthy)

Oh yeah, Charmed Life was great! Her Dark Lord of Derkholm series was also excellent

Fantasy writer Dianna Wynne Jones had a way of writing about magic in a way that was emotionally coherent but still absurd in the way well written magic should be. Howl's Moving Castle originated from her, but also the excellent book Dogsbody, which did make me cry

A question, how does TIF work with Land Value Tax? TIF works by assuming the revenue will increase with development, but Land Value stays the same no matter how developed a property is. Does it simply not work in a LVT district?