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Structural Engineer, Dreamer, Urbanist - Hyde Park, KCMO - Equal parts Don Shoup, Christopher Alexander, and Henry George

Paris of the Plains

Joined January 2010

Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.

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Heavy left-turn volume on 39th street (71 to StateLine) and pedestrian crossing makes it a perfect candidate for 4 to 3 lane conversion. That bit of road paint would save lives and reconnect my Hyde Park neighborhood (and others). Thoughts @QuintonLucasKC and @BrianDavidPlatt ??

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Back in early 2020 I did some advocacy work to get a safe crossing to my kid’s grade school. Over 700 parents signed a petition w/ support from the school. We asked for a raised crossing…ended up getting a flashing sign. This is the response from the engineer that radicalized me

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It would be easy to be critical of the engineer, and we should, but as an engineer I get it. He has a code book he’s following and the book says what it says. And that’s why we need to rewrite the Kansas City Traffic Manual. This is a life-safety issue.

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Sure, ebiking is cheating I guess but here’s the deal…before I got an e-bike, I rode my acoustic bike maybe 10 times per year. Now I ride my e-bike almost everyday, and often multiple times a day. E-bike is a car replacement, not a bike replacement.

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100 Franklin Apartments by Pallette Architecture, New York City. 2 and 3 bedroom units. Single shaft scissor stairs. 6 and 8 story buildings with main level retail.

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The main problem here imo is an engineer that blindly follows the code (maybe for liability reasons?) when the facts on the ground clearly point to a better, safer solution. We need a better code!

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this is why we talk so much about single stair and parking reform

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@AlexBolewski Well, maybe if you join me we can get this done. There’s a lot of people on my side of this issue and lots of examples worldwide of the tide shifting in favor of people over cars.

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I want to be clear that this is not a criticism of the staff at KCMO. Lots of people worked very hard to make this crossing happen. I very happy we at least got a flashing light. That alone has made it better. I’ve heard we may get bulb outs too which would be huge.

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Witnessed peak transportation disfunction last night at the Messi game omg. 73,000 people trying to drive a vehicle out of a parking lot. Haha how could this ever be a good idea.

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I don’t see a downside for Missouri if Chiefs go to Kansas. Kansas foots the bill and we have to drive across the state line. Ok. Sold. It’s not like the Chiefs or Royals have brought any new development or businesses to Missouri.

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Kansas is run by a woman who has enough aura to win 2 terms as a Democratic candidate in a Republican State, turn a state deficit into a $2.6b surplus, attract the likes of Panasonic, and legalize sports betting. If you think she ain't coming for the Chiefs, you are sleeping.

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I get the impulse for personal freedom in America, but we now live in this weird reversed nanny state where things that are safe for the owner but cause the most harm to others are allowed, and things that may be harmed by the former are disallowed. It’s the upside down world.

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Guess which one is street legal and which one isn’t.

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Terracotta facade. 41 apartments, main level retail. Zero parking. Architecture by De Zwarte Hond and Loer Architecten.

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@AlecStapp If Americans weren't forced to spend 20% of their income on cars, they'd be even richer...and maybe even feel rich.

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Single stair buildings taller than 3 stories in New York City...something like 1500 all in. Quite popular in Brooklyn.

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Two lots in Kansas City. Right owned by California lady who pays $28/month in taxes (average since 1998). Vacant for at least 26 years. Left pays $178/month. Provides 7 units. With a Land Value Tax structure, they would pay the same, and the lady from California would sell/build

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Turns out that Sam Altman (ChatGPT, OpenAI CEO) is an outspoken Georgist. Go figure. 20 years no one knew anything about this niche economic theory and now it shows up everywhere you look.

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@KRDemCT Board game stores/restaurants, rock climbing gyms, 5-a-side soccer lots, yard game themed restaurants, top golf, axe throwing, art museums…to name a few.

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I have money and will give it to you if you make one these in KC (Japanese listening cafe)

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Pretty cool to see street design changes in Amsterdam over time:

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@matt_vanswol I’ve owned a Tesla for 3 years. I bought a new e-bike because it is: 1) more fun and meets 90% of my needs 2) easier to find parking 3) costs less than $1.5k Many American families are doing the same.

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Economists are pretty close to unanimous on this point. The net economic impact from sports teams is zero sum or negative. This is due to the substitution effect and economic trade offs re: public money.

@MannyAbarcaIV

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Definitely no economic impact from sports teams…

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My reading of the Strongtowns take on the NJB controversy. there's no "fixing" the yellow area. it's going to die, let it die. but there are some little blue circles that can be salvaged from the dumpster fire that was the Suburban Experiment™️. Let's be honest about the scale.

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My friend Jason is taking some heat for this, but he's not wrong. Most people think that "hope" means we take what we have and make it better. That's delusional. Most of what we have built is going away. It was never meant to endure. It was purely consumption. What emerges out

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@philritz1 Add that everyone must be in a mobility scooter as well.

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Ok, time to clear up some confusion re: single stair. Architectural Record released an article yesterday so it's getting a lot of attention again which is great. I was one of the proponents for an ICC proposal that would have allowed this building type nationally. THREAD

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Welcome to a High Injury Corridor in the heart of midtown KC. On average, 1 person dies and 12 people are injured here every year. 6 lanes intersecting 4 lanes at this particular location. Walkable/bikeable neighborhoods on each side divided by a death trap.

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@QuintonLucasKC Bring bike lanes from multiple neighborhoods into the Plaza and make it a Mecca for outdoor dining while curtailing cars to make it more pleasant to walk and eat outside. Make better connections to Brush creek and south plaza neighborhood

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Why did cops stop doing their job?

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Summer of 2022, a short time before I was "stair pilled," I took the fam on a trip Europe. We stayed in a number of 4-6 story flats oriented around a single stair and elevator. These units were incredible. Everyday we would open windows for cross breeze in light filled spaces. 🧶

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I propose we do this to Pennsylvania Ave in Westport.

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If I were a conservative, I would lean into Family Values by putting a school, pocket park, and corner grocery in every neighborhood and making it safe for kids to walk/bike/roll there (and adjacent neighborhoods). Making it easy to be a parent would be my number 1 policy.

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America, what’s stopping you from using billions of bollards to protect Americans from getting hit by a car?

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This is how you encourage public transit, e-bike, car sharing, and walking.

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@Build_Culture Structural Engineer here. This appears to be be non-galvanized reinforcing steel being used as joint reinforcement for horizontal beam action. They should have used galvanized ladder reinforcing. But also you’re not wrong. Adding steel reduces the lifespan of concrete/masonry

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Great lesson here. I actually love the architecture above the street, but at the street it fails.

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Might upset the wife, but I found a great new spot for the Royals.

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1 year

Benefits of Single Stair (Point Access Block) buildings. 1) cross ventilation 2) small lot development 3) family sized units 3) no long corridors 4) less waisted floor space 5) lower cost construction 6) lower operation/embodied carbon.

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Would love to see a starter CONDO that is affordable, livable, retains value, located on a calm street, and can accommodate a young family. This building type is basically non-existent in the US but super common elsewhere

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Starter homes are often some of the most charming in town. Why have they been stigmatized so long? Their charm derives in large part from their proportions due to being smaller; I call it the Teddy Bear Principle:

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@the_transit_guy In the world? Maybe Pau, France. Mountains, Basque culture and food, architecture, beautiful setting. Nobody knows about it and not on any travel lists.

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Ok hear me out. What if we turned the old stables into a bike cafe? Maybe do a pump track to the south and stock a nice collection of cargo and mountain bikes. Test ride on the tracks. Commuters can drop by for a drink or snack on their way. ?????

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This would be my proposal for 71. Use the land sales to finance the highway removal and improvements. No need for federal financing…just local leadership and MoDOT partnership.

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1 year

cough plaza cough

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The retail vacancy rate on Montreal’s Mont-Royal Avenue dropped from 14.5% before pedestrianization (2018) to 5.6% after pedestrianization (2023). 📍 Montreal 🇨🇦 @Val_Plante @AvenueMontRoyal

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Would love to see a few hundred simple apartment buildings like this in KC

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9 new homes in a very handsome building that rose on the site of a vacant lot in Philadelphia. Gentle Density done well!

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my attitude lately as a pedestrian/cyclist around midtown haha

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Harsh Car Dependency 🚶🚊

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Walking with coffee/chai 👍🏻

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Hey KC, my teenager XC runner has almost been hit at this intersection 5 times this summer. Drivers turn Right on Red here and make it dangerous for my son. Please help. @kcmo311 @EricWBunch @BrianDavidPlatt @Kc4SafeStreets

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In my little bubble it feels like my YIMBY ideas are winning haha. Humbling to scan the 394 comments on KC’s latest development… 😬

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@BrentToderian Parking should not be free

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NIMBY activists are scrappy. A common tactic is organizing to deny a Variance request. For this reason, one way to get more housing is to remove dumb regulations like parking minimums. Maybe have parking maximums instead…activate NIMBY fury against parking lots 😂

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3 years

Learned this week that our PIAC request was amended to include the nearly 700 signatures we received for a safe and effective crosswalk on Armour near Cherry/Kenwood street. Intended for kids going to school, but will be good for everyone including drivers

Sign the Petition

Armour Boulevard Crossing - Create a Safe Route to School so Children can Walk Safely

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Just discovered that KCMO has a 5 year plan to give me and my neighbors protected bike lanes to Westport, 39th Street West, and the Plaza...and I'm quite happy about this.

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The first modern city to fully employ the Henry George tax regime to fund itself is going to be so absolutely bonkers successful I can only imagine how quick reform will spread to other cities around the world. 1/3

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What else would you add?

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@ecachette If paying 1.1m for a house you should just move to Europe and increase your quality of life at the same time

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Single stair building with zero parking in Seattle.

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In Phinney Ridge, a land use application for a 6-story apartment building with 24 homes and 0 car parking has been approved.

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@Tesho13 Are we working against it? We’re just trying to allow other types, not disallow this type.

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the groundswell of support for this idea is incredibly heartening. we know that pedestrianized zones have a mixed history of success, but with careful design and implementation, i am very optimistic about this idea. KC needs a plaza at the Plaza.

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As we keep the conversation going on pedestrianizing some of the Plaza, I appreciate Urban Lab for a rendering of the possibilities for a Nichols Road made for people. Studies show walking spaces lead to higher sales and reduced crime. Look forward to more discussion.

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At the mass timber conference keynote presentation with some thousands of attendants and they are talking about single stair point access blocks.

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Hot take. Parking lot owners should have the same tax bill the skyscraper next door has. Same city services, same access to labor markets. Same access to transportation systems. Same tax. What message are we sending to investors and landowners? Buy and hold? Yikes.

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Armour Blvd between Troost and Gillham. South side visual assessment. 36 out of 62 cars (58%) are parked illegally. It’s worse during the week. We need bollards, curbs, enforcement (and meters?) It’s been a safety issue for a long time. @kcmo311 @BrianDavidPlatt

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Me, currently. They put a bike lane in front of Henry George’s home haha of course.

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It’s better architecturally and structurally to do it this way. Don’t be afraid of simple boxes. (Thou single stair reform would make these boxes even better.)

@pushtheneedle

push the needle

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this mass timber project features no modulations & is a simple box. this is critical to build mass timber structures. regulating whacky shapes kills their structural ability and forces builders to use concrete or steel. our land use codes need major reforms for sustainability

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Single stair reform would help these designs (as would working with better designers haha). I’m all for more housing but getting tired of this. No units for families. Density but poor urbanism. We should allow better. We can do better.

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Pretty cool what Singapore has been able to do. Social Housing, but of such high quality that 80% of population lives in it. Affordable housing for everyone, allows people to invest in businesses and live a better life in general. From @alex_lee

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Hosting a French exchange student for a couple weeks. He went to the Plaza today and was a little confused. He asked Why is it called the Plaza?? Guys, what should I tell him? There is no plaza at the Plaza. Does this name make any sense?

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This is the sort of small scale infill development possible in Seattle but illegal in Kansas City. Single Stair Reform™️ fixes this.

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@QuintonLucasKC Do it. Not only good for business, it’s good for neighborhoods not to have empty lots for parking next to every other building. Better urban fabric and more desirable destinations while increasing the tax base. People will find a way to get there, no need to dictate car travel.

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Would be cool if we reinstated the Kansas City Land Value Tax that paid for the construction and maintenance of our world class parks and boulevards system… in order to make it world class again.

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@btoellner I think we're over building ground floor retail. I get it from an urbanism perspective but when they're all vacant I don't think it helps. I noticed in Portland that they do quite a bit of ground floor residential units (pearl district) and it adds a nice residential feel

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I’ve raised three kids near Troost. Crime has never been a serious concern for us or other city parents. We’ve had our car rummaged through and our garage broken into. It’s annoying but these kids aren’t out to kill us. What are we concerned about? Street carnage.

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Hyde Park these days

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@TempestaRubida @perdricof @EmRoseDeLeon 5/1s are incredibly inexpensive to build so will continue to dominate the market for the foreseeable future. The niche for mass timber will likely be 6-12 story buildings following Type IV-B construction classification per the 2021 IBC.

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Land value tax would fix this.

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1 year

For real this doesn’t need to be complicated. Make the bus run on tighter schedule and make it more direct. People will take it. We took it on our trip to Amsterdam…took 1.5hrs from midtown. Not cool. Armchair solution approved! @urbanlab_kc

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8 months

9 out of 10 buildings I stayed in while traveling in Europe were like this. Large family friendly units, cross ventilation, windows on multiple sides. Single stair and an elevator…5-6 stories high. Very nice buildings that should be legal here as they are in Seattle and NYC.

@urbanlab_kc

UrbanLab KC

8 months

Point Access Buildings are currently illegal to build in Kansas City, not because of zoning, but because of code. These could potentially open the door to a new type of development that is currently not feasible.

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2 months

wish list - streetcar street

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@profsamperry Cities should be designed to make parenting easier. Dense walkable neighborhoods. Kids need to be able to be independent. Walk/bike to school, friends, grocery, parks, sports etc. suburbs subject kids to tv as baby sitter and social isolation…unless parents drive them places

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4 months

While I’m on an LVT kick I’ll mention this. Jumps in land value around areas of new public investment (transit in particular) make adjacent property owners rich overnight. This phenomenon represents a massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to private owners. 🧵

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@en_diz

Kansas City mom blames bad street design for daughter’s injury

She believes Armour Boulevard is unsafe and said drivers can’t see pedestrians and people walking can’t see cars until it’s too late.

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10 months

Sitting on my porch in Hyde Park and over the past 20min there have been 8 bike riders go by. A couple on cargo bikes. A couple kids. I don’t live next to a bike lane…this is just normal neighborhood activity now haha. I love it.

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9 months

Land Value Tax™️ should be rebranded because it’s fundamentally not about taxation. It’s about freedom from taxation of our work and property. Freedom from high land rent/price most have to pay just to live, move, and be. Maybe we should call it the Freedom Tax 😂 🧵

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3 months

Stiglitz is getting Cooked right now by my fellow YIMBYs, and for good reason…but let’s celebrate this YIMBY policy he defended immediately before his No Brothels in My Backyard gaff

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10 months

Walkable neighborhoods are in demand, but developers have to take on a lot of brain damage to bring it into reality. Cities could do a lot to make good development easier to build. Progress has been made, more is needed.

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Andy Boenau

10 months

77% of Americans would pay more to live in walkable neighborhoods. Meanwhile, close to 100% of local governments are busy keeping walkable neighborhoods illegal.

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2 years

@nathanallebach Specific instructions and talking points for use in engaging neighborhood meetings, city council members, etc that would result it the changes we need. NIMBYS do this much better than us unfortunately

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3 months

Outside of some high cost of living coastal cities, and Chicago, KC spends more money per capita on police than any other major city. That’s insane. Personally, I’d rather see that money invested in streets, sidewalks, and services. Luckily, homicide rates are trending down

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2 years

Here’s an idea. KCMO just built 30 miles of protected bike lanes. What if every adjoining lot along the lanes was given a zoning overlay that allowed retail/restaurant use and no requirements for parking, set back, or minimum sf?

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4 months

Dear architects, please match the caulk color to the brick, not the mortar. This should be masonry design 101 but I see it screwed up so often. 90% or the wall is brick, not mortar, so it stands out negatively when the caulk matches the mortar.

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3 months

Very cool example of Accessory Commercial Unit next to You Say Tomato here in KC.

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4 months

My dream policy yin yang haha

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3 months

@orangutanagram How can I get one

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6 months

Bike parking for the win!!! Hahah so easy. Right next to front door. Bike to seat in 3 minutes!

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3 years

Watching the latest City Beautiful episode and am realizing that we should make Mill Street in Westport and Nichols Rd in the plaza completely car free. That should be a thing. What other streets are good candidates?

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2 years

@AtMaturity @Arch_Revival_ 4 stories, no set backs, no parking. This building is illegal in America.

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3 months

If KC spent the same $’s per capita on police that Wichita does, we’d have $176M more in our budget each year. That’s A LOT of city improvements and services we’re missing out on.

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Mayor Q

@QuintonLucasKC

3 months

This year’s Kansas City Police Department budget is $318 million dollars. This year’s Kansas City Vision Zero budget is $4 million dollars. Adding just a bit of money to traffic and pedestrian safety to save lives remains well below spending for other priorities.

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11 months

When I was working in STL, we were talking about these 6/12-pack units in KC and how great they were. Would love to see a fresh take on this great building type. Step 1 might be just allowing this in more neighborhoods.

@urbanlab_kc

UrbanLab KC

11 months

We see these historic structures all over Kansas City, but what if they weren’t exclusively historic?

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2 years

@the_transit_guy Chamonix.

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2 years

With the streetcar coming down main, we should build like 10 or more 12 story residential towers over the top of the existing parking lots AM I RIGHT WHOS WITH ME ON THIS

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And finally, we stayed in this unit in Barcelona. Level 6 of 7. Single stair and elevator of course. These kinds buildings are ubiquities in Europe...and completely illegal in the US outside of New York and Seattle.

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2 months

Kinda sorta Gillham Cycle Club shop and cafe as imagined by AI

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2 years

There was an idea, popular until recently, that downtowns needed highways and parking garages to attract suburbanites into the city. Turns out the opposite was true. Highways and easy parking made it easier and cheaper to leave, leaving traffic, pollution for those that remained.

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Hey Hyde Park homeowners, this place is legit. Go here to support local business and screw Home Depot at the same time haha. No but for real, it’s just sketchy enough to be great, and they have unique products good for old homes (like Waterlox for example).

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