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20 Dec 2024

Thread of the occasional big hauls I do by bicycle. Tonight I bought a snowblower and pressure washer.

Kellie Torres is the most San Fransisco (derogatory) coded candidate running in D3

1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰@bradleyclover.com

Kellie Torres' housing affordability strategy: "Just move to Gresham lol"

Please rank Novick. I dont need you to like him, just put him at #4, #5, or #6 as a hedge to keep Torres out of office. Tell everyone you know to rank him *somehwhere* on thier ballot.

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Kellie Torres' housing affordability strategy: "Just move to Gresham lol"

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Like, deadass thats it

Ok, so I like Jeremy and think you should absolutely rank him in your top 3... but I do not understand the opposition to a power line to WashCo. Like, yes some of its power is gonna be used for data centers, but even without that there is load growth in WashCo that needs to be met.

Jeremy Beausoleil Smith@jeremy4pdx.bsky.social

Portland General Electric is commenting on my posts as far back as March 2025 shilling their “new” version of the Harborton Project. The new proposal’s key change is a $5 million remediation fund to replace the up to 20 acres of Forest Park they’ll clear to build transmission lines for data centers.

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Like, does electrical transmission really warrant a protest movement? If we can't build a power line in an urban area then what hope do we have of connecting offshore wind to the valley through the coast range, and solar+wind from Eastern Oregon over the Cascades?

Maybe I'm missing something! Idk, what about the project makes it so bad?

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Michael Andersen

@andersem.bsky.social

In other words: this should be a legal place to put a modern electric elevator

Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com

On Tue., Nov. 3, at 4 p.m. ET, I'm presenting my IBC proposal to a committee work group (one of many) to allow elevators to open into exits if dwelling units are also allowed to open directly into them. Essentially it would remove the "corridor penalty" for adding an elevator to a single-stair...

Jeremy Beausoleil Smith@jeremy4pdx.bsky.social

Electrification of homes and cars adds demand to the grid, and WashCo's population is growing which also adds demand to the grid. We're talking about power lines, not a pipeline. It's fine? Am I missing some enormous environmental impact?

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Jeremy Beausoleil Smith

@jeremy4pdx.bsky.social

The Pacific Northwest is a magical place and we are so lucky to live here. I don’t take a single day here for granted. We have to protect the forests, waterways, plants, animals, and people we get to live alongside with everything we’ve got. (Yes I saw Wildwood last night. Yes I cried a lot)

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab

@lanefab.com

Replying to @lanefab.com

Outside of Vancouver I still feel like there is potential for “car light” single stair infill, and i hope that the new gov will see this as equally worthy of support vs simply de-regulating sprawl.

In Wildwood's battle scene, both sides clashed in a mid-off. With both suffering from poor tactics, as niether played to their forces streagths, nor took advantage of favorable topography. In this thread I'll discus how both forces could have won while reducing their own casualties. 1/78

Fischer 🛠️🚇@fischer.bsky.social

wildwood was so good

Go watch Wildwood its good

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Xavier Salazar

@xsalazar.bsky.social

Someone from ODOT executive team should be forced to purchase and live in this home www.redfin.com/OR/Portland/...

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bobby

@bobbylewis.blacksky.app

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social

I asked a run buddy for advice for running a half marathon race. He said "Find the nicest butt and just follow it at a distance until you reach the finish line." Ever since then I've been a back of the pack runner because there's only small booties in the front.

@realgershkuntzman.bsky.social

Anyone good at GIS wanna figure out Portland's figure?

Matt da Silva@mdasilva.bsky.social

Some interesting observations here: Nashville and Austin both have job geographies that look more coastal than Sun Belt, suggesting investment in public transit there would be very successful. Chicago and Philly, despite strong downtowns, suffer from inner ring decay. Dallas is The Bad Place.

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Gersh Kuntzman

RETIRED? Hardly! #CriminalMischief is back — with a very special episode featuring a confrontation with one of NYC's worst people!

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Evelyn 💗

@evieevolving.bsky.social

Replying to @spicybigdad.bsky.social

SE deserves better statewide representation than Nosse and Taylor.

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Xavier D. Stickler

@xavierdstickler.bsky.social

This is an iconic hyperlocal skeet and it did not get the love it deserves.

Xavier D. Stickler@xavierdstickler.bsky.social

Steady as she goes! 4 more years!!!

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pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼

@pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social

Weve approached the part of the campaign where my cortisol levels are so high I’m just gonna be vaguely sick for two weeks and then get REALLY sick after November 3rd when my body no longer has adrenaline to keep going 😌

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Xavier D. Stickler

@xavierdstickler.bsky.social

Steady as she goes! 4 more years!!!

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Jeremy Beausoleil Smith

@jeremy4pdx.bsky.social

This is what 10,477 mailers looks like. These will go out tomorrow to more than 23,000 District 4 voters. Thank you to everyone that has supported us so far. We were not sure if we’d have the budget to send out mailers, but thanks to y’all we were able to. I truly cannot thank you enough.

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JRUrbaneNetwork

@jrurbanenetwork.bsky.social

While I was in Tibet a few weeks ago, a smattering of Chinese metros opened. Ningbo Metro officially opened its 1st high speed metro, Line 12 on 22 Sept 2026. The line is 60km long with 10 stations and overtaking loops for EXP services. Pics by 浙B小有名气的可爱鬼. The line...

my honest expectation for the senate. I put $0.01 on this outcome

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Brandon Mullen

@brandonmullen.com

My ballot is COMPLETE and I will be dropping it off today or tomorrow (not pictured: the rest of my ballot)

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tell your friends: rank novick if you want housing to get built in the inner eastside

Hide@wutherering.bsky.social

imo Torres being elected (incl in place of Novick) would be Very Bad And Annoying News for getting maximal IE4A passed

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just watched a group of teens move out of the priority seating area on the bus to make room for a guy getting on who was probably 40

I understand why @counciloravalos.bsky.social has an interest in keeping SDCs as a revenue stream, but the legal theory behind them is that they offset the infrastructure costs created by a development, not to fix pre-existing East Portland infrastructure issues. www.opb.org/article/2026...

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Thats not to say East Portland should be left high and dry, but SDCs are legally required to be spent on capital projects that are plausibly related to that specific development, and predominantly inner Portland development doesnt affect parks in east Portland.

The SDC waiver needs to be made permanent. Permit fees and the construction excise tax should also be waived as well. The city has a ton of unfunded needs, but new housing isnt the place to be getting funding. If anything we should be subsidizing construction, not taxing it.

If SDCs are being disproportionately spent in East Portland (as they have historily), where a small minority of production is happening, then we're just doing sin taxes on homes, not paying for development associated infrastructure costs.

Got our signs up our front! Yell at everyone you know turn in their ballot, and remind them to not rank Torres! ❌️

Gonna take inspiration from @chalkgirl.bsky.social and draw a reminder on my sidewalk reminding my neighbors to not rank Torres

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have not seen a lot of attention on the moda center lately. I think this issue has not really been widely appreciated as an example of gross fiscal mismanagement by the mayor and his allies, and I think voters should consider if they are endorsing this kind of graft on their ballots this year 🧵

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Reading upnon Portland's FAR transfer process and this whole concept is so dumb and convoluted. Just eliminate FAR as a constraint. Our planners genuinely seem to belive that tall buildings in the center of a major city are a blight that should only be allowed in exchange for "public benifits."

I'd buy two bike lane sized streetsweepers and a small garage to operate it from. I would then retire early and spend many an hour sweeping bike lanes.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?

Portland: Neighbors Welcome

Very nice welder and a 1 car garage to work in making custom bike frames.

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@portlandneighborswelcome.org

Hey Neighbors, we hope that you will take our endorsements into consideration when you are filling out your ballot for this election <3. We need housing champions on city council! portlandneighborswelcome.org/2026-portlan...

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iain

@maccoinnich.bsky.social

New interior renderings of the James Beard Public Market, currently under construction in Downtown Portland www.instagram.com/p/Dej7nplm8D...

City Council delayed deliberations again, it has been set for the 29th of October. Perhaps if theres gonna be more time then it'd be worth doing some more ammendments to the plan...?

1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰@bradleyclover.com

No one spoke in opposition to the nee unlimited height option. Thr closest was a representative from thr Goose Hollow NA, who basically said they dont like it but can live with it since it excludes view corridors. There was no council discussion on it today due to time constraints.

A reasonable ammendment would be to raise thm FAR caps outside historic districts or view corridor to be uniform and higher (or eliminate FAR as a constraint there entirely). The current patchwork of arbitrary FAR limits better resembles a paint-by-color page than it does a planning doc.

An interesting thing I heard from BPS staff yesterday was that they have an ongoing planning project dealing with waste management for infill housing. Its the first I've heard of this and I see nothing online about it, but with Inner Eastside for All it strikes me as super important to engage with.

1 million Portlanders by 2045 🌲🌧️🦫🚲🚇🚰@bradleyclover.com