12:17 AM
cracked commented on All You Motherfuckers Complaining That aPodments Are Too Small at 200 Square Feet.
@81 We already have requirements for off street parking for new apartment buildings based on estimated number of occupants. This is based on a policy. The current city approval of the apodments allows for each cluster to be considered an apartment. The city should be showing the neighbors a study saying the street impact will be the same or less or explaining explicitly who made the policy decision to require less parking, but they instead finagle the rules to get more people with less parking per person and carry out their own developer led social engineering with no sense of obligation to explain environmental impacts.
9:25 PM yesterday
cracked commented on All You Motherfuckers Complaining That aPodments Are Too Small at 200 Square Feet.
@70 Ok, Holden, I went to your article. Here's your final word on the impact to existing neighborhood parking: "And as it happens, free parking in front of your house isn't a constitutional right." That's a big fuck you to current residents of a Seattle neighborhood and big smoochy to the developers with their multi-garage homes on Mercer Island or wherever.
At least you were honest about the other fuck yous to current neighborhoods. One, you even said it, the developers and their city handmaidens basically lied and manipulated the current code. "The city and developers classified the building as six units (with up to eight bedrooms each), instead of as an apartment building with dozens of units, which would have required a more public process"
As to further recourse, more fuck you. Design review boards don't cover "The complaints about density, parking, zoning, taxing, etc." I know someone who quit the board he was on because there was basically zero input on anything that mattered.
You claim superiority by claiming the primary issue is cultural with you taking the high road. I have no problem with apodments, but I do have a problem with saying fuck you to and steam rolling the people who live somewhere, taking away their right to a say in how their living environment changes. You seem to love that part.
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At least you were honest about the other fuck yous to current neighborhoods. One, you even said it, the developers and their city handmaidens basically lied and manipulated the current code. "The city and developers classified the building as six units (with up to eight bedrooms each), instead of as an apartment building with dozens of units, which would have required a more public process"
As to further recourse, more fuck you. Design review boards don't cover "The complaints about density, parking, zoning, taxing, etc." I know someone who quit the board he was on because there was basically zero input on anything that mattered.
You claim superiority by claiming the primary issue is cultural with you taking the high road. I have no problem with apodments, but I do have a problem with saying fuck you to and steam rolling the people who live somewhere, taking away their right to a say in how their living environment changes. You seem to love that part.
3:44 PM yesterday
cracked commented on All You Motherfuckers Complaining That aPodments Are Too Small at 200 Square Feet.
@1 Holden knows perfectly well that the biggest problem is lack of chance for community input and ramming projects through loopholes in current regs never meant to deal with this kind of housing. He's just twisting the lense to manipulate the perception of the view toward his chosen end. It's his m.o., whether you like his objectives or not.
3:35 PM yesterday
cracked commented on All You Motherfuckers Complaining That aPodments Are Too Small at 200 Square Feet.
I have nothing against the pods, but I do have a problem with developers twisting current definitions of zoning and building requirements to create housing without addressing impacts that other kinds of housing would have to address, such as parking. I know Holden thinks all his sainted pod dwellers will ride bicycles, but the truth is that they will be people like everybody else in this public transport wasteland and a large percentage of them will own/need cars one way or another. If you triple the number of people in a given piece of real estate, you can't pretend you are having LESS impact on the community around you.
May 18
cracked commented on The Saturday Morning News.
@13 BS artistry. In 1983, with a Pell grant you could pay your tuition at a top public university and rent on an apartment working less than full time at a coffee shop. Student loans were needed in small amounts as a stop gap or supplement, not needed in amounts that put you in debt the equivalent of whole years of salary.
May 18
cracked commented on The Saturday Morning News.
In your comment on the Lakewood police case, it would have shown the importance of the news more if you has noted that the lawyer got copies of the docs that were made before the originals were destroyed and that the Lakewood police are not denying that the prior existence of the missing documents. It's a pretty damning admission.
May 6
cracked commented on Lunchtime Quickie: Students Suspended for Twerking?!.
I appreciated too how the report found some lily white student reps to denounce it, while everyone else was asking what the big deal was. Those people are future civil leaders!
May 6
cracked commented on Lunchtime Quickie: Students Suspended for Twerking?!.
WTF? Might as well suspend the cheerleaders, wrestlers, and swimmers while they're at it.
May 2
cracked commented on Who Is Most Likely to Think an "Armed Rebellion" Against the Government Might Soon Be Necessary?.
How do we keep these wackos from moving here with their arsenals when climate changes wipes away a huge percentage of he Southern economy?
May 2
cracked commented on Man Arrested in Cal Anderson Park While Friends Loudly Sing "Bohemian Rhapsody".
@8 agree. haters...
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