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The Wiggly Wizard posted:I see so much potential for mixed use development in the San Jose burbs but they keep putting up single story tan stucco big box monstrosities.
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What was that south bay city that planted garlic in the medians to keep the vampires away?
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Gilroy development is pretty hosed. They kicked out all of their downtown businesses and heavily built luxury apartments prior to the 2008 crash hoping to ride the wave to a quaint Los Gatos-like downtown, but then the bottom dropped out of the market and everything just sat vacant for 6 years. It's only recently that things have recovered enough to really start building again. At least it's actual apartments instead of more shopping centers.
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Duckbox posted:Ah yes, the town that always smells like garlic definitely has to worry about those people lowering it's probably values. I personally enjoy that part of town. Of course I don't live in that side of town and only notice it when I'm driving over Pacheco pass. I'm told that there used to be a tomato cannery as well and the combination of the two made that part of town smell like marinara. They've been having problems with the downtown too many of those buildings aren't up to earthquake code and need a bunch of work. Some of the older businesses (read a bunch of antique shops) kept goi g through the crash but others haven't. There was a thing recently where they wanted to ban street level offices from the downtown area ostensibly to put retail or restaurants in but in actuality it was because those downtown offices were immigration or remittance services. Nobody mentioned the street level offices of the chamber of commerce or the garlic festival. Proust Malone fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Sep 22, 2017 |
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Nobody out stinks Milpitas though. Only when the wind blows past the garbage dump/water treatment plant in the right direction  Heading eastbound on the Dumbarton bridge also gets you a nice whiff of rancid rear end (presumably from the salt marsh) when you approach Fremont.
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the worst is still harris ranch you can smell the death and excrement for like a ten mile stretch either way on the five
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That, my friend, is known as the "heiffervescence."
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Any other Cali goons familiar with SB2? Apparently it is intended to help increase the supply of affordable housing, funded by fees from Real Estate transactions. I'm optimistic about any measures that help increase the supply of housing, particularly low-income housing, but I figure there are goons here more savvy than I am about the actual details.
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Panfilo posted:Any other Cali goons familiar with SB2? Apparently it is intended to help increase the supply of affordable housing, funded by fees from Real Estate transactions. It's good but will take at least a decade for any of them to start to matter and see real benefits but hey better than nothing. and also they missed a chance at some real prop 13 reform, even if it was repeal of commercial property tax freezes would be a huge start. Not sure about the whole "real estate transaction" taxes (which exclude home sales and commercial real estate? weird) is really going to work
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All I know is if it sounds good, my Assemblyperson probably voted against it. *checks* Yep!
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CaptainCrunch posted:That, my friend, is known as the "heiffervescence." 
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CaptainCrunch posted:That, my friend, is known as the "heiffervescence."  Howww can you stiiiink into my nose, like open doors...Leading you down into my downtown
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Sep 27, 2017 01:19
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Super Tuesday!
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For reference, Governor Jerry just signed this guy and moved the presidential primary up to March: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB568 I wonder why most members of a certain bloc voted No! Still hoping we move to ranked-choice voting, or something like it, one of these days.
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CPColin posted:For reference, Governor Jerry just signed this guy and moved the presidential primary up to March: Hell yeah! This is great news. Agreed w/r/t ranked choice, or my personal favorite: approval voting. Also, I don't think any federal-level election (including primaries) should be winner-take-all, and instead delegates should be awarded proportionally for each state. But this is an excellent (if small) step towards making things better.
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Will this result in CA being penalized delegates? If so, I'd assume it would still be worth it? Even at half the delegates CA would have a huge influence on the primary as opposed to the whole thing already being wrapped up by the time CA votes?
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Zwabu posted:Will this result in CA being penalized delegates? If so, I'd assume it would still be worth it? Even at half the delegates CA would have a huge influence on the primary as opposed to the whole thing already being wrapped up by the time CA votes? It won't result in any delegate penalty.
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Sep 28, 2017 02:26
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That's a drat good bill.
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Came across this the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eNcuGcPW4 It was just a nice little reminder of how garbage dog whistle racism gets dressed up in California by libertarians
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I'll save people time with a sample: "Oh the injustice that Apple has money to donate to the Southern Poverty Law Center but nothing for worthy native sons like myself!"
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El Mero Mero posted:Came across this the other day: Wow. That's quite special.
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This oughtta go well:
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CPColin posted:This oughtta go well:  when the clap is just right
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e. oops wrong thread
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CPColin posted:This oughtta go well: For the record:
Maybe I was too harsh; Assemblyperson Cunningham did indeed vote for AB 785, which further restricts persons convicted a misdemeanor from possessing firearms. I wonder why he felt safe voting for that one and not any of the other ones?
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El Mero Mero posted:Came across this the other day: I like the part where he starts laying into rich liberals for weakening antitrust and for deregulation, allowing monopolies and corporations to screw over the poor and then he suddenly realizes what he's saying and is all "oh wait don't get me wrong I'm a Hoover Institute guy who hates antitrust and loves deregulation, just focus on my point that rich Democrats are hurting the poor!"  You're not supposed to tell people what your politics actually do, brother.
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Oct 9, 2017 05:59
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Welp, DiFi is running in 2018 again. She's the Senate's oldest serving Senator at 84. I haven't heard that she's losing her grip, far from it, but I wonder if we'll be looking at a Strom Thurmond situation at some point.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Welp, DiFi is running in 2018 again. She's the Senate's oldest serving Senator at 84. I haven't heard that she's losing her grip, far from it, but I wonder if we'll be looking at a Strom Thurmond situation at some point.
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Are there any progressives that are already talking about running?
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DiFi definitely needs to go, but I doubt she'll be primaried; there is too drat much money and power lined up with her.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:DiFi definitely needs to go, but I doubt she'll be primaried; there is too drat much money and power lined up with her. DiFi isn't likely to lose and her announcement was well timed in the wake of the Vegas shooting (she has a strong track record on assault weapons ban), but still.
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The problem with mounting a serious run against DiFi is that she's defacto in control of the entire Democratic Party apparatus at this point, and would not hesitate to use it to bury any challenges from within the party itself. You'd need Bernie-style independent candidates who are okay with the fact that until they win or DiFi finally croaks, they Dems are going to make every conceivable effort to suppress them. It's hard to find candidates like that who aren't also completely loving insane. Not impossible, but hard. That said if somebody sane appears to take up the mantle, I'll campaign up and down for them.
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It's really difficult to find objective information on the delta tunnels project. Are there any good writeups? Is Jerry Brown actually bad?
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Has Brown given any indication as to whether or not he's going to sign some things like SB 179? I'm worried he's going to just ignore it or something; we're getting pretty close to the last day he can sign stuff into law this year, right?
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Looks like we amended pocket vetoes out of the constitution, according to the footnote at the bottom of the first page of this PDF. Good!
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There's been some kind of backlash toward Jerry Brown declaring California a "Sanctuary State". Donald Trump, being the petty dictator he is, apparently directed ICE to go after 'low hanging fruit' in the form of small businesses and other easy-to-deport targets in CA in response. This in turn has led to a lot of weirdly butthurt people saying  "Moonbeam should've known this would happen, he just made it worse!" which confuses me, because they're both acting like they are mad that Brown just forced the 'Sanctuary State' thing down their throats without a vote, and somehow taking Trump's response like they are upset people are getting deported. Huh? Either they are sympathetic to immigrants, in which they'd support Brown's declaration, or they aren't, in which they wouldn't be upset when Trump retaliates. I don't get it...  What also cracks me up is when you get the same turbolibertarians that flip out about taxes and shoving policies down our throats (nevermind California requires a supermajority vote to raise taxes but just a simple majority to lower them, from my understanding; and also the proposition system is basically a direct democracy in the worst, most petty way imaginable) that are weirdly silent about Prop 13 or other tax breaks for homeowners.Whoever mentioned Prop 13 being a form of feudalism was dead on.
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CPColin posted:Looks like we amended pocket vetoes out of the constitution, according to the footnote at the bottom of the first page of this PDF. Good! Thank you for linking this; I've been checking SB 179's status daily, worrying that it'd slip through the cracks or something, but if it can't be pocket vetoed then I'm a lot less worried. I'll still judge the gently caress out of Brown if he refuses to actually sign it, but I don't think he'd outright veto it so it should become law either way now.
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Panfilo posted:sanctuary state The Wiggly Wizard posted:It's really difficult to find objective information on the delta tunnels project. Are there any good writeups? Is Jerry Brown actually bad? As for the cost analysis and rumors of shady deals, I have no idea.
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sincx posted:Wouldn't feudalism be the government being able to tax you whatever it wanted? As in all wealth is ultimately controlled by the feudal lord. No, feudalism actually had lots of rules and arguably had more respect for the rights of the commons than modern capitalism does. The real issue was that the vassals, overlords, monarchs, and church had a shitload of overlapping rights and obligations so no one could really agree on what the rules were or settle claims without a shitload of peasants getting killed.
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