David Pardo
@woodhaus-co
YIMBY Denver Steering+Policy Lead Technical Founder (design+building science) @ woodhaus (CLT net-negative near-passivhaus plexes) Urbanist/Georgist/Sewer Socialist/Stakeholder Capitalist
Removing dying trees from the forest is good for forest health, and for wildfire prevention. Colorado's forests are massively overgrown. A healthy Colorado Forest would look like the first photo, not the second
I'm solving this in my mass-timber fourplex by having all plumbing on the wet wall, with wall-hung toilets. The shower and bath drains can both run through what, elsewhere in the unit, is 2.625" of concrete, which is all above 1.375" of Pliteq rubber (25mm with conduit+10mm topper) on top of the CLT
If you want to your local Trader Joe's, the parking lot is a non-issue
In this case, the city is fine with the dangerous existing conditions and is making it difficult to fix them. In the case of Walmart:
Posting about my Colorado-based CLT plex-building company again www.woodhaus-co.com
It seems like it's often a vestibule that's ~20sqft www.archdaily.com/search/image...
This, but with a trunk instead of an engine in the back. The same platform could also have a taller van-ish or pickup body.
Posting about my company (woodhaus) again so I can pin it to my page www.woodhaus-co.com
Single-stair buildings don't resemble two-stair buildings. There's no "other side" of a single-stair building because they're significantly smaller.
I prefer regulations that prioritize the public good over private interests (corporate, union, or personal). The photo is downtown Denver. Over 100,000 people came downtown (~1 square mile) every day before COVID-19. If you can operate a tower crane in DTLA, Denver's CBD, etc, you can do it in NYC.
kasirer.nyc/client-list/ Unions all have lobbyists. Sometimes they're a paid firm, sometimes they're internal staff. Unions also put plenty of time and money into electioneering, and fighting about policy and politics
I wouldn't say it's just the left. You can see it on the right, too, and in establishment centrist liberal circles. It's an authoritarian vs. libertarian issue. Left libertarians (read: me) want abundance, Japanese zoning, and social safety nets.