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Leperflesh posted:And what kind of people is that? If they're being cruel to the chickens, of course you can regulate that. The type who don't clean the coop at a frequency that keeps it from smelling awful, and just piles the poo poo in a corner of the yard when they do clean it, causing the general area to smell for blocks around.
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The Sexual Shiite posted:I'm anti-chickens in town because I've lived near the kind of people who shouldn't keep chickens in town, and there's not a good way to regulate it other than bans. Jacksonville has an urban chicken keeping program where you need to take classes and hold a licence for 5 hens in a non Rural Residential housing area. If you are reported for chicken keeping and do not have this licence, you are fined and the birds must be removed. quote:Ordinance 2015-337-E which creates a new Section 656.422 of the Zoning Code entitled “backyard hens in certain residential zoning districts.” Residents of the City may remember that the City instituted a two-year pilot program in 2013 to determine the need for and public support of a permanent backyard hen program. The program has been deemed a success and the City is now creating a program for residents to maintain up to five backyard hens where they otherwise are not permitted. Residents will be required to obtain a permit, pay a one-time non-refundable fee of $25, and demonstrate successful completion of a chicken keeping seminar. Where the residential lot is over one acre, the owner may keep one additional chicken for each additional 21,780 square feet over one acre. The ordinance includes specific requirements with regard to the size, location, and screening of the hens’ coop. An opt-in provision has been provided for exempt neighborhoods and an opt-out provision has been provided for all other neighborhoods.
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Jul 29, 2017 12:34
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Hambilderberglar posted:Sorry, I realise this isn't the politics of urban planning thread, and maybe this is some cultural thing I'm misunderstanding, but why exactly do city residents have to be "convinced" of anything? If reducing the amount of cars on the street is a priority, just build all of your new structures as multi-unit dwellings with 1 spot for every 2 units. Of course a bunch of people are going to cry about it but that seems like an excellent opportunity for the city government to tell them to shut the gently caress up? Unfortunately, the people crying about it are wealthy donors and people with too much time on their hands.
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Jul 29, 2017 14:46
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Hambilderberglar posted:Of course a bunch of people are going to cry about it but that seems like an excellent opportunity for the city government to tell them to shut the gently caress up? You are vastly overestimating the amount of spine our city governments have.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Jacksonville has an urban chicken keeping program where you need to take classes and hold a licence for 5 hens in a non Rural Residential housing area. If you are reported for chicken keeping and do not have this licence, you are fined and the birds must be removed. I'm not in Jacksonville.
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The Sexual Shiite posted:I'm not in Jacksonville. Congratulations, I guess? That has gently caress all to do with what he said.
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In her unfinished basement - where her kids have been playing for almost two months - Smith found out a week ago, all the I-joists painted green in the ceiling were coating with a Flak Jacket coating with formaldehyde-based resin, meant for fire protection. But after the formula changed, the formaldehyde wasn’t bound well enough and people started complaining about a smell. “Awful. It’s a nightmare for a new homeowner. It's just something we didn’t plan on,” Smith said. Seattle-based company Weyerhaeuser makes building materials and said 2,200 basements have this problem-coating. It was manufactured after December 1 of last year but the company wouldn’t say how many in Colorado http://www.9news.com/news/investigations/moving-made-complicated-by-formaldehyde/460095680 oooppps
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Jul 29, 2017 20:40
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ohgodwhat posted:Unfortunately, the people crying about it are wealthy donors and people with too much time on their hands. Trying to make roads safer by making them wider and straighter just leads to people driving faster & more recklessly, parking mandates waste a lot of space and make property more expensive, car-centric planning in general makes places less pleasant to live in(and rarely makes them more pleasant to drive in, counterintuitively enough), etc.
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Jul 29, 2017 22:05
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Haifisch posted:Also people's intuitions about what improves parking & traffic(and what impact specific parking/traffic structures have on commerce) have basically zero relation to reality, and convincing them they're wrong is a bitch. Traffic engineering and planning is like pushing a huge-rear end rock up a hill, only every time it falls to the bottom a different moron comes up to you and you have to listen to his lovely opinions on how you need to 'lift with your legs' or 'push it up from the other side'.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Traffic engineering and planning is like pushing a huge-rear end rock up a hill, only every time it falls to the bottom a different moron comes up to you and you have to listen to his lovely opinions on how you need to 'lift with your legs' or 'push it up from the other side'. hey as someone who walks down the street i know a thing or two about proper traffic flow mister ivory tower traffic engineer
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I think I found the "classy" version of that house with all the mannequins     The shower tiger is there to remind you that this house was built in 1966.   AMERICA  $250k for a 5BR 4BA 6500sf house isn't bad but apparently it needs new HVAC and it's probably crumbling from the inside and riddled with asbestos.
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Youth Decay posted:I think I found the "classy" version of that house with all the mannequins The entire house, but that image in particular, feels like being inside a coffin with the lid closed and hearing the thud of dirt above your face.
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Jul 30, 2017 04:36
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Youth Decay posted:I think I found the "classy" version of that house with all the mannequins just because you organize it nicely doesn't mean it's not a hoard
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Jul 30, 2017 05:02
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Youth Decay posted:I think I found the "classy" version of that house with all the mannequins This room is weird, it's just off somehow. Good setting for a horror story. edit : just noticed those asbestos floor tiles, yikes.
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Jul 30, 2017 05:42
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value-brand cereal posted:
Yep. When I look closely there's enough scale items to convince me they're normal sized rooms but everything else makes it feel like the ceiling ends at shoulder height. Is it the camera or are those doors 6 foot wide apiece? That room definitely has ghosts that'll force you to play chess with real people.
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Jul 30, 2017 08:36
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Lime Tonics posted:This room is weird, it's just off somehow. Good setting for a horror story. It's because it has crazy low ceilings and no windows. Unless that weird stained glass thing is a window, in which case it's weirdly positioned in the wall.
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Jul 30, 2017 12:25
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There's definite camera distortion happening. Notice how everything looks squat vertically and stretched horizontally. They're trying to make the rooms look bigger but instead are making them look like tombs. Where are the windows in this house? I see windows on the outside but, like, none in the pictures.
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Jul 30, 2017 14:14
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Bonster posted:There's definite camera distortion happening. Notice how everything looks squat vertically and stretched horizontally. They're trying to make the rooms look bigger but instead are making them look like tombs. Why would you have windows in your rape/kill dungeon?
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Jul 30, 2017 14:17
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Proteus Jones posted:Congratulations, I guess? Hey now, maybe he's sad he's not in this southern utopia paradise BOLD CITY, WHERE FLORIDA BEGINS I almost kept a straight face typing that.
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Jul 30, 2017 14:28
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Youth Decay posted:I think I found the "classy" version of that house with all the mannequins If this is the alterative result for amateurs, I suddenly understand the HDR photo trend. The house is awful, but it can't be as bad as the photos make it look.
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Jul 30, 2017 16:09
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Ashcans posted:It's because it has crazy low ceilings and no windows. Unless that weird stained glass thing is a window, in which case it's weirdly positioned in the wall. Now I know what it reminds me of, it's a level from the first thief game, that weird house level.
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Jul 30, 2017 18:16
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Jaded Burnout posted:Is it the camera or are those doors 6 foot wide apiece? That's a very common real estate picture technique: stretching pictures horizontally to make the rooms look bigger.
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Jul 30, 2017 18:20
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ohgodwhat posted:Unfortunately, the people crying about it are wealthy donors and people with too much time on their hands. More importantly, in many cities, city planning commissions have to have public hearings before approving projects and they tend to listen to whoever shouts the loudest. NIMBYism is a real thing and it's a huge problem to getting new development done, here. Many planning commissioners are elected, the rest are typically appointed by elected officials, and small very noisy groups of people can be really effective at blocking poo poo. Just google for "residents block new development" and you'll get thousands of hits.
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Leperflesh posted:More importantly, in many cities, city planning commissions have to have public hearings before approving projects and they tend to listen to whoever shouts the loudest. NIMBYism is a real thing and it's a huge problem to getting new development done, here. Many planning commissioners are elected, the rest are typically appointed by elected officials, and small very noisy groups of people can be really effective at blocking poo poo. The flip side of this is that without community members speaking up, zoning boards tend to be fairly willing to rubber stamp anything that'll increase tax revenue, which means that developers get away with buying up three or four adjacent single-family lots and cramming as many townhomes as possible on every square inch of land.
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Coasterphreak posted:developers get away with buying up three or four adjacent single-family lots and cramming as many townhomes as possible on every square inch of land. THIS. In my line of work, I see that constantly. Four or five houses with decent sized lots getting bought up and then cramming 50-60 townhouses on them. In fairness, a lot of the houses are in pretty lovely shape, but some look (from the outside anyway) to be pretty nice.
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Sounds like inefficient lots being replaced with denser development to increase housing stock.
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Yeah, the alternative is more sprawl.
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Places for people to live? Ugh, what about my aesthetic preferences?
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wesleywillis posted:THIS. Seattle.txt I weep for my hometown because of this.
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I'm excited for more higher density housing in my hometown (Silicon Valley). The "traditional" one-story strip malls with a tire shop and a dirty parking lot are shameful. but it's always luxury condos designed for housemates, not families, with lots of fluffy green stuff instead of more parking spaces. Starting at 1.3 million ～～ A Sekisui Heim got clipped together down the block today. Here's a video of a similar house from the same company, 4 hours sped into 1 minute. https://youtu.be/kesT4_WHitI
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Jul 31, 2017 08:48
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I wish more quaint single family detached homes in and around Seattle proper would hurry up and get loving bulldozed already and replaced with some actual loving urban density before the sprawl that's already consumed everything from Tumwater to Marysville and out past Issaquah gets even more out of control, especially considering how expensive it's getting.
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hailthefish posted:I wish more quaint single family detached homes in and around Seattle proper would hurry up and get loving bulldozed already and replaced with some actual loving urban density before the sprawl that's already consumed everything from Tumwater to Marysville and out past Issaquah gets even more out of control, especially considering how expensive it's getting. a 'character' house on my way to work that was in a great location but an asbestos laden shitheap sold for way cheap and i was hoping they'd at least make a suite or something since housing, while cheap, is still an issue here. but nope, coat of paint and rent it into the ground singe-family-plus-wasted-space for another decade seems to be the plan.
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oh i almost forgot about this since i y'know, declined to purchase the house. so in the listing pictures, the ceiling looked kinda bowed. i figured it was the real estate agent's terrible lens and/or terrible photo processing, since nothing has cracks and nothing looks hosed up. get there... yeah, it's deflecting 2" at least in the center. is there a normal person explanation for that or were they hoping nobody would notice?  also shown: real estate agent attempting to re-direct attention to the scenery (this is my pic from when i viewed it)
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Did it give when you pushed?
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SoundMonkey posted:oh i almost forgot about this since i y'know, declined to purchase the house. Obviously, when you turn on the ceiling fan it pushes the ceiling straight again. It is a deliberate feature.
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Synthbuttrange posted:Did it give when you pushed? it looked... so normal. like it was SUPPOSED to be that way. i went back and looked at the room again after i took that pic in case my phone was making it look weird too. either it happened real slow or (more likely) they just touched it up enough to sell. which it didn't, after 160-ish days on market without a price change it was de-listed by the seller. and to give you an idea of how much of a piece of poo poo it must have been, it was almost the exact same price as this delightful little 2 bed / 1 bath on a medium size lot that i did end up getting, but had 2 more bedrooms, 1 more bathroom, an acre and a half of lot, and a detached 3-bay fully finished garage with 240V power and water. similar distance to amenities. and they couldn't sell it. e: the garage was even down a separate little lane about 100' from the house and had good external lighting, you could have rented it to a mechanic for half your mortgage payment
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My guess is something way heavy was up there. What room would have been above it and did it have any problems? Would you roll down into the center if you sat down?
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Why the gently caress didn't you go upstairs and take a picture of the sunken bathtub? e: Oh wait the bathroom was probably too full of women for you to get in 
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FCKGW posted:Sounds like inefficient lots being replaced with denser development to increase housing stock. Efficient use would be building an apartment block so you could have room for some kind of green space/courtyard.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why the gently caress didn't you go upstairs and take a picture of the sunken bathtub? there was... gently caress. there was no upstairs what in the gently caress was that edit: or rather that WAS the upstairs, the other bath and two beds were in the finished basement (it was built half-in-a-hill style)
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