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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 years

Older folks: “Why don’t kids go outside anymore?” The outside they built:

John Surico

@JohnSurico

3 years

One crazy paradigm I think about a lot is the one where older people constantly talk about how they used to play in the street all the time, but then are unable to connect the dots as to why that's not a thing anymore.

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 years

When discussing the city, my own grandmother often reminisces over the streetcars she rode and how they went everywhere. She moved to STL county in the 60s. There’s a serious disconnect for most older folks between the presence of auto infrastructure and the damage it’s caused

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 years

So I guess this has gone viral? I don’t have anything to promote, other than my beautiful hometown St. Louis

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Mitchell Jorstad

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2 years

@DanielStrauss4 Let’s not lie to ourselves and pretend like the guy on the right would live within 10 miles of any kind of multifamily building in a major city like this

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

2 years

One thing I’d like to see more of this decade is cities telling suburbanites to get stuffed. You don’t live there and don’t pay taxes there, why should the city have to make decisions to serve your preferences at its own residents’ expense?

Brian Rosenwald

@brianros1

2 years

The problem is bus lanes make driving in the city that much more miserable. And the more miserable/expensive you make driving & parking, the less those of us who live in the suburbs will come into the city. And we're essential to the well being of restaurants, shops, etc.

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Mitchell Jorstad

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2 years

Entitled Cyclist🚲

@EntitledCycling

2 years

The gas crisis is so bad these innocent kids were forced to WALK to school.

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Mitchell Jorstad

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3 years

@ShellyFriedland @mtsw I’d counter that the paranoia comes in part from the physical environment. Hard not to worry about your kid getting flattened by a car going 40 on a mini-highway. I biked around a few subdivisions as a little kid, but I was bound in by 3 huge roads that were each no-go zones

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

1 year

Y’all tore down a historic church/synagogue for stadium parking and for that reason alone I will NEVER support FC Cincinnati

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@PeteMetz513

1 year

LOL okay.

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Mitchell Jorstad

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3 years

@karakaraclark I really feel for him-and everyone that has to cross arterial roads like that. They’re miserable enough that it’s almost always out of necessity too. Absurdly unsafe

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 months

The negligent landlord problem in St. Louis is SO BAD. I can’t think of another city on the entire planet where its residents, patrons and businesspeople are so entirely uninterested in its maintenance and sustenance. (🧵 1/7)

Ben West

@westbywest

3 months

Unfortunately this 1845 3 story structure on the car lot at 6627 South Broadway may not be with us much longer? @stlrainbow @CaraSpencerSTL

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

This is a map of parking in downtown St. Louis. Red=surface lots, purple=garages, yellow=buildings with parking podiums, blue=MLS stadium. We do NOT need any more parking. Clearing out the 1900 block of Olive is a useless waste. Enough is enough!! #Nomoreparking

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

6 months

Do y’all in STL ever think our grandparents and great grandparents that built places like these would be devastated to hear we left it all to rot and crumble?

NEXTSTL.com

@NEXTSTL

6 months

Demo permit application submitted for St. Augustine's. ☹️😢 Another treasure lost to fire.

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Mitchell Jorstad

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2 years

@DanielStrauss4 He just got out of a zoning board meeting in his exurb that turned down an apartment project because he doesn’t want “those people” in his neighborhood

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Mitchell Jorstad

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3 years

@Liz_Pecan Privatization of public space is rampant nowadays-suburbs were where the concept was formulated and unfortunately we see it adopted in cities now too

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

2 years

Unprotected bike lanes are unserious bike infrastructure, bc drivers will *never* respect them

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 months

St. Louis has a great zoo railroad, if anyone was wondering 😉

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@the_transit_guy

4 months

Taking the monorail around the Bronx Zoo today. Do you know of other zoos or theme parks have trains too?

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

@SmartGrowthCEO @atlurbanist @BethOsborneT4A @CityFoodLover @ctbrown1911 @DrDesThePlanner @andreperryedu @rkbtwo Mill Creek Valley in St. Louis. Once a dense neighborhood of 20k, and a nexus of black culture in the city (and beautiful architecture to boot!). Entirely annihilated in 1959. None of it remains.

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

1 year

@kurtiswu zoning changed after the buildings were built, and they got grandfathered in. hope this helps!

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 years

@ShellyFriedland @mtsw I’d go so far as to say predators are a far bigger threat in a car-oriented neighborhood where they can get away quickly w/ minimal witnesses on foot that can see them. Walkable neighborhoods offer much better “natural surveillance”-IE more witnesses around = better deterrent

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 years

@ShellyFriedland @mtsw On top of that, the social isolation that suburbia creates makes it easier for fear and paranoia to fester

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

I want to take a little time to discuss small scale buildings, including ones in St. Louis, and how important they are to our built environment. Here’s a few examples from around Downtown and Downtown West:

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

2 years

Honestly was not expecting STL to be on the list, but this highly alarming y’all

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

2 years

Absolutely wild to me that STL is bottom 5 yet has a ballpark downtown. But then that’s what to expect when you spend nearly a century gutting your downtown & adjacent areas for parking

Jay Cuda

@JayCuda

2 years

The number of people who live within a 3 km radius circle around each MLB ballpark (3 km = 1.86 miles)

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 years

I’m absolutely blown away by the engagement this had! Thanks all! I do have one more thing to promote. If you’re able, support @ProjectAug ! They’re an amazing org in a disadvantaged part of STL, building community centered around a historic church bldg!

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

2 years

@stuntman760 @eric23332 Confusing symptom with cause, just bc stores avoid black neighborhoods bc racism doesn’t mean their presence causes gentrification

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

We just might have had the money to keep these schools open if we stopped giving out property tax breaks to developers, y’know?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

@stltoday

4 years

At least 11 public schools in the city are likely to close for good next fall, based on a proposal from St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Kelvin Adams via @blythebernhard

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 years

(and it’s a stunningly beautiful building btw)

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

@CatoInstitute Cars are such a 20th century technology. Why should we continue to invest in them?

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

1 year

Urbanist writer Jane Jacobs posited that every city had creative individuals and energy - but what separated places where they flourished vs floundered were “squelchers”: civic leaders that squashed these initiatives or let them wither. St. Louis is run by squelchers. 1/6 🧵

Sarah Fenske

@sarahfenske

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St. Louis officials told a traveling river circus it had to cease a planned 3-night run on Laclede's Landing. "It sounds like specific interests were bothered for reasons I don't quite understand," says performer Jason Webley

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

2 years

@UStreetBuzz @LeDiplomateDC We could easily still have Le Diplomate and put apartments on top. Housing and character are not mutually exclusive

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 months

For my St Louis folks, Harland Bartholomew was our Robert Moses, the one who proposed and helped carry out a gutting of our neighborhoods for cars. Easily a top 3 villain in STL history

Kevin DeGood

@kevin_degood

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In 1924, Harland Bartholomew completed his "Major Streets" plan for Toledo. The plan presents a radical vision for reconstructing the city for cars. Almost every road except local streets was marked for widening. Dotted black = expand existing Dotted red = new ROW

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 months

@mdasilva1563 Also Osaka is from what I’ve heard more laid back than Tokyo, much like Chicago to NYC, no?

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 years

“My grandparents abandoned the city because they didn’t like nonwhites living there, and I haven’t been back since! So here’s why I, from 30 miles away, think the city shaping its own future is bad”

The Platform

@PDEditorial

3 years

Brandt: Viewed from the suburbs, St. Louis' future looks bleak

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

2 years

We definitely should be paying closer attention to this region of the Midwest IMO. 3 metros of 2 mil+, plus 3 others 600k +, multiple major universities, and 2 of the Midwest’s fastest growing metro areas-all within 3 hrs drive of each other. This region has MAJOR potential

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

2 years

I put McKee in the same St. Louis villain tier as Kroenke

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 months

One other addendum: what’s worse is when some point at the condition of the city as a way to blanket blame Democratic leadership, or worse, the black/PoC population. The hard truth is that mostly wealthy white suburbanites own the majority of the city and have left it this way.

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 months

@JasonThorne_RPP DC, this is even easier

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

7 months

Density is literally just groups of people pooling together to split land costs. What gets lost in gentrification discourse sometimes is that yes, you can’t lower land cost with new and denser housing, but you CAN divide it. Which ultimately lowers housing cost

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Density allows everyday people to outbid the rich for land.

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

2 years

St. Louis leadership has been twiddling its thumbs since the pandemic on traffic safety downtown, after throwing up temporary barriers and doing no work since. The total apathy coming from city hall is how we’ve come to this new low. It’s not surprising, but it is appalling

KMOV

@KMOV

2 years

“She has lost both limbs below her waist, so for us, how do you find words to explain our sorrow? We really can’t."

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

1 year

Hi all, if you’d like to see a pair of beautiful buildings saved for posterity and incorporated into burgeoning midtown STL, rather than torn down and made into grey, lifeless parking lots where there’s already plenty, please sign this petition!!

Sign the Petition

Save Mill Creek's Last Buildings--DON'T DEMOLISH

www.change.org

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 years

@nytimes Everyone else’s issues in this article were directly caused by people like her

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

7 months

100% correct take. There is not enough small footprint commercial space, which pushes rents up super high for the few spaces existing. which is why we get chains in large spaces in new construction residential bc they’re the only ones who can reliably afford

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@ad_mastro

7 months

Whoa

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

Friendly reminder. We must save 1900 Olive St not just because they are historic buildings, but more importantly because we MUST end the pattern of eroding downtown for parking. ALL buildings, big *and* small, contribute to a walkable and vibrant downtown. #nomoreparking

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

2 years

@DrHarryThomas This smells a little like Replacement Theory propaganda

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

1 year

RIP Mullanphy building. Idk what’s happening in preservation this year or why we’re losing so many buildings we’ve fought for for years, but I *do* know that city hall is asleep at the wheel @STLCityGov

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

We are well past the point where we should be trying to add even *more* parking to our parking-soaked downtown. Let’s envision a better future for our historic architecture instead. Sign this petition to save STL’s 1900 block on Olive Street!

Sign the Petition

Save the 1900 Block on Olive Street!

www.change.org

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

Whoever gets elected between @tishaura and @CaraSpencerSTL , I hope priority No 1 will be reigning in Paul McKee and other negligent landlords. Reading about a different historic property in Old North catching fire every month is exhausting and infuriating.

Elad Gross 🇺🇸

@BigElad

4 years

Paul McKee defrauded Missourians out of $40 million in tax credit and is destroying North St. Louis. Our Attorney General sued. Our Governor eventually appointed a new AG, who settled the case for less than 1% of what we were owed. McKee donates to our Governor and new AG. 1/2

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4 months

@2024dion I’d bet anything it’ll pop around the Gowanus canal. Water frontage and pedestrian space + nearby transit access + proximity to DT Brooklyn will make that area boom in the coming years

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 months

I am SO frustrated with my home. By the region. By the “don’t care” culture, especially from suburbanites who still milk the city for its regional anchoring. And by city leadership’s inability to enforce any accountability whatsoever. This city makes me mad.

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

6 months

Sorry, the city you built is gone. Your kid skipped town bc they wanted a ranch house. The mayor you voted for paved over the streetcar tracks, and your neighbor’s grandkid slumlorded the corner store until it collapsed. That ice cream shop you loved is now a highway interchange

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

6 months

I heard the news earlier this week and I’ve been devastated. I have a special place in my heart for St Augustine. Like so many other St Louis landmarks left to crumble to dust, you deserved better St. A’s. 💔

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 months

This building on S Jefferson burned down about a week ago. Owned by an old retiree in St. Charles county who sat on it and did nothing for decades. This stuff happens weekly. And we just let them get away with it!

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 months

There’s long list of landowners like this, just sitting on properties in STL and demoing by neglect, letting residents deal with the aftermath. P**l M*Kee is an infamous example but he has a million mini-mes just squatting and contributing no value while also refusing to sell.

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@OfficialMitchll

1 year

The interstates were a fine project *between* cities. When we put them *in* cities and used them as intra-city (as opposed to just intercity) transportation, that’s when they became so destructive

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@RustBeltMike

1 year

Even Eisenhower realized the interstates were a mistake almost immediately

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4 months

If you create opportunities for people to say “no”, people will always show up and say “no.” Our nation’s community engagement processes are approached from a negative standpoint which invites NIMBYism. No wonder it’s so hard to build anything

sam

@sam_d_1995

4 months

@jdcmedlock I went to my local Manhattan community board meeting yesterday to testify in support of the City of Yes upzonings and it was wild how 1) me and my wife were the only people there under 30 2) so many people there have this desire to micromanage everything in our neighborhood

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3 years

@thefrog1394 @Final_UsernameX The amount of people just blowing this off as a highway rest stop is baffling lol. This is truly every arterial road in suburban America and they go on for miles and miles like this

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@OfficialMitchll

5 months

The JVL we could’ve still had today, if city leadership gave 1% of the effort and care that residents did

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@PugL0verMan

5 months

The Jeffvanderlou you never knew. At the neighborhood organization's height in the late 70s.

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2 years

Hoboken is a model for every city in the US-for St. Louis, for DC, and for any and every city dealing with the insane and escalating traffic violence epidemic. All you have to do is Slow. The. Cars. #slowthecars

Strong Towns

@StrongTowns

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Hoboken, New Jersey is a dense city center that hasn’t had a traffic death in over 4 years. They’ve accomplished this by creating more narrow, one-way streets, high visibility crosswalks, raised intersections, curb extensions, bike & bus lanes, and removing parking spaces.

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What kind of civic culture is it where people just up and leave the city, and totally abandon their stewardship while sucking away its wealth? That collect the golden goose’s eggs while it starves from negligence?

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@CagninaPaul @NaqiyNY Hit the gym

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3 months

@XchangeASE @sam_d_1995 Baltimore✅ St. Louis✅ Philadelphia✅ All at night, alone, multiple times, still here

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

6 months

All cities change-you’d be hard pressed to say Atlanta or NYC for example are the same places they were 50 years ago. But they also grew into something else, their stories continued. They didn’t just vanish into nothing. I’m just sad. What a waste

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

@michlschwrtz @DIorioNathaniel If I were a provocateur architect I would simply not create an architectural model that served as an inspiration for leveling cities for the next century

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

2 years

Spicy take: let’s not fund it then. Or at least just use what we have. Every city and their mother is in a constant convention center arms race. Let’s right-size our convention resources instead and focus on our strengths

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

@stltoday

2 years

Downtown St. Louis convention center no longer has enough money for full expansion, chief says

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

11 months

Blows my mind that literally all of this is gone. I don’t think the St. Louis that we know today even remotely resembles what it once was, both physically and culturally. And it breaks my heart 💔

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@PugL0verMan

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Franklin and Jefferson looking NE

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1 year

Cincinnati in general has been absolutely *atrocious* about wantonly ripping down structurally sound historic buildings for empty lots and parking. Just entirely backwards leadership. I complain about STL being myopic and behind the times-Cincy’s about 10 years further back

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@jamesinho4 @Tyler_The_Wise @constans @HousingSpock Assuming the stats you pulled entirely out of the air are true, explain to us how the 10% “ruins the situation” for the 90%. If only 10% of people are ok with dense housing, then we would still have plenty of SFHs to go around, no? Developers would quickly run out of demand

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@OfficialMitchll

5 months

I know it’s just an estimate but as a rust belt native this feels monumental

coney dog urbanist

@detroitdevdoc

5 months

NYT: Detroit has grown in population for the first time since 1957, and has climbed from 29th most populous city up to 26th.

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Like imagine your great great granddad comes back and first thing he says is, “Oh I’d love to go get a sandwich at my favorite corner deli and see my old house.” You go there and the whole block is just a patch of grass

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@OfficialMitchll

2 years

@rice_rust_belt See I always thought it was just Anchorage Cold, No Development. This is eye opening

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Mitchell Jorstad

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2 years

@YIMBYLAND Washington DC is an obvious answer-Downtown DC, Bethesda, Silver Spring, Tysons, Rosslyn-Ballston Corridor, Pentagon City, Alexandria, Reston-Herndon, etc etc etc. All transit connected

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@mocking_point @atotalposer Would be fitting, given that she’s Anakin’s daughter Gotta love when the sequels bumble their way into continuity entirely on accident like that

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1 year

And St. Louis at 10. Hahahahaha

bear 🚲

@U_arctos

1 year

cincy at #7 for worst parking availability?? this cannot be serious

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How do you build a neighborhood when half of it is owned by a trust from a guy who hasn’t been to the neighborhood in 50 years and doesn’t pick up the phone? Did everyone just buy a ranch house in the 60s and get collective amnesia about where they grew up and owned property?

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Even in the popular Grove there’s unused buildings owned by a trust with zero contact info, another example. I tried every avenue I could find when I interned with a developer in college. Unreachable. That was SIX years ago and the buildings are still in the same hands.

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3 years

Older folks: “Why don’t kids go outside anymore?” The outside they built:

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Jane Jacobs said in Death & Life that cities are not an affront to nature, but rather are themselves natural. They’re human’s creations, no different than beehives, nests or beaver dams. They’re just how we live

Addison Del Mastro

@ad_mastro

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Way too many people see agency and conspiracy in what's basically an automatic process. Cities aren't a plot or an invention. They just kind of exist.

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@joingles One more lane will fix it. Just one more lane bro I swear

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

There’s been a lot of talk lately on crime and reckless driving in downtown STL lately. Here’s my latest, a proposal on how we could address both of these items with a redesign of the infamous Tucker Blvd:

Taming Tucker: A Proposal for Renewed Safety and Vitality in Downtown STL

How could we make downtown safe, livable and vibrant by changing one street? This proposal offers a unique alternative for the 150-foot wide Tucker Boulevard in downtown St. Louis.

thearmchairplanner.wordpress.com

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

2 years

“Green space” is wasteful and useless if people can’t use it, regardless of how pretty it looks. Pass it on

Daniel Trubman

@dmtrubman

2 years

Downtown Oklahoma City (1910▶️2022) - More parking lots/garages - More road infrastructure - More "green space"

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2 years

@dylanmatt “A supply of good starter homes” ‘Oh but not those ones’

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1 year

@MikeScottPXP the church wasn’t even in the way of the stadium it was 2 blocks away

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@OfficialMitchll

4 years

Very poetic for this protest to be taking place on highway 40 at Jefferson. This is where the majority-black Mill Creek Valley neighborhood once stood, before it was cleared for the highway and white economic interests.

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

@mnolangray No, we learned how to make lawsuit-proof playgrounds

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 years

A little late on this. But: enforcement is not the solution to STL’s speeding woes. Only better street design, better walkability, and de-emphasizing car infrastructure can really make STL safe. Anything else is a band aid at best.

St. Louis police hope to stop traffic death spike with citywide enforcement effort

In 2020, St. Louis reported 52% more traffic deaths compared with the previous five-year average of 53. So far in 2021, that is on pace to continue.

www.stltoday.com

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

1 year

@skateawho doesn’t necessarily have to be a church. could have been apartments, a community center, even a brewery (Pittsburgh has an example of this). Literally ANYTHING besides wasting it so suburbanites don’t have to walk an extra 2 blocks the 3 times a year they visit

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@OfficialMitchll

4 years

@3rdDegreeBurns @SmartGrowthCEO @atlurbanist @BethOsborneT4A @CityFoodLover @ctbrown1911 @DrDesThePlanner @andreperryedu @rkbtwo Just incredible devastating.

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

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@remroya 😊😏

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 months

“I don’t like cities, therefore they should be illegal” could’ve been one tweet

J. Sanilac

@Sanilac_J

5 months

GIMBYISM: THE CASE FOR _REDUCING_ URBAN HOUSING DENSITY You've all heard the YIMBY story: increasing population density in cities will lower housing costs, reduce inequality, and save the planet. In this thread I'll make the case for its opposite. No, not NIMBYism. GIMBYism.

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

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Hello all! I wanted to return to Twitter briefly to make an exciting announcement. At the end of August, my job will be returning to the office, and I’ll be moving to work in person. And so my work will take me to Washington DC!!

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

I’ll never forget when I took a Historic Preservation 101 class & someone in the class argued that we don’t need to preserve historic buildings because we have pictures. Was very tempted to offer to buy him a snack for next class & bring him a printed pic of his requested item

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

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Good morning everyone! Proud to announce we have over 1200 signatures!!! We have the city’s attention! But we’re not done. We must show the mayor & City Hall that we see future for downtown that doesn’t need a sea of parking. Sign and share!!

Sign the Petition

Save the 1900 Block on Olive Street!

www.change.org

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

3 years

Hot take: charging high prices for parking during times of high demand is good and necessary

David Carson

@PDPJ

3 years

$40 to park in the garage at Busch Stadium for a @Cardinals game feels...excessive

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

A little late to the party on this, but this is so freakin cool!! Just what North STL needs too-a spunky, play-oriented Cassilly-esque work of raw creativity that can serve as a cool place for residents and a draw for visitors alike. Love love LOVE it!!

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

4 years

My thoughts on the impending demolition of 1900 Olive. Emphasis of parking over people and places has been incredibly destructive for St. Louis, and it’s time we end this practice once and for all. 1900 Olive St is our turning point. #nomoreparking

They’ll Pave Paradise, and Put Up a Parking Lot

Favoring parking over people has never worked in downtown St. Louis’s history. So why are we still trying it?

thearmchairplanner.wordpress.com

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Mitchell Jorstad

@OfficialMitchll

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A tale of two cities: