Dir. Planning & Policy/GreaterSanduskyPartnership Writing on how we escape the Generica and find our way back to distinctiveness. https://teapaw.org/t.co/a99Zbhq2XA
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Jeff Kerr retweeted
We achieved a big milestone for the Sandusky Bay Pathway yesterday! 🚲
We set the new bridge going over Pipe Creek, which will be an important connection on the pathway between downtown, Cedar Point Dr, & the Landing.
#SanduskyBayPathway #SanduskyOhio #LakeErieLove
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In the new book 'Messy Cities,' urban planners make an unusual argument: less urban planning bloomberg.com/news/features/…
I didn’t plan to defend "luxury" over "affordable" housing.
Nobody plans that. It feels like rooting for the wrong team.
But after a career in this planning world, I’ve had to face an uncomfortable math:
When you stop a developer from building market-rate housing, you don’t stop the rich from moving in.
You just force them to buy your neighbor’s house instead.
We treat "affordable housing" and "market-rate development" like enemies. We fight new condos to "save the neighborhood character." But we are ignoring the basic physics of capital flow.
Money is fluid. Housing stock is solid.
When the money flows in and the stock doesn't grow, the money doesn't leave. It just displaces the people who were already there.
This is the Hermit Crab Economy.
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Welcome to Week 1: The Great Flattening—An Introduction to Escaping Generica open.substack.com/pub/escapi…
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Week 1: The Great Flattening—An Introduction to Escaping Generica open.substack.com/pub/escapi…
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They told us the automobile was freedom.
But at forty-five miles per hour, you lose the resolution of a human face.
The sidewalk is empty because we engineered the danger into the Zoning code.
You aren't a citizen here.
You are just a blurred unit of consumption passing through a friction-free zone.
Invisible details die when efficiency takes the wheel.
Greetings from Generica.
ALT A vintage-style cartoon postcard illustration showing a man in a convertible driving fast past generic strip malls. A billboard simply reads "THE LOGO." Text overlays point out "Invisible Details" being blurred and "Efficiency" driving the car. The caption reads "You can't see a smile at forty-five miles per hour." Keywords: Urban Planning, Generica, Stroad, Traffic Engineering, Walkability, Commercial Real Estate, Escaping Generica.
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We built a world where you move too fast to care.
It’s not bad luck. It’s a calculated system called Market Entropy. I’m decoding the physics of sameness to find our way back to distinctiveness.
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In economic development, the reality is that in most places, an "efficient market" doesn’t give you boutique hotels and mixed-use developments like the pretty pictures show.
You get storage units.
Economic development is not finance. It is physics.
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Jeff Kerr retweeted
Inventory is all that matters in the current housing market.
If a market has an inventory surplus, then prices are becoming more affordable (Austin, Tampa).
If a market has a shortage, then prices are getting more expensive (Chicago, New York).
Getting more homes on the market should be the first thing we focus on as a country if we want to address the national housing crisis.
Jeff Kerr retweeted
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For 30 years his song remained the same “Build the Trail.” And that he did. Job well done Tim Donovan, the visionary implementor of the #TowpathTrail. He persevered to see through Cleveland’s northern Towpath miles. We owe you our debt of gratitude dear friend @canalwaycle
RIP💚
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🚨Which Race was the BEST in Motorsports This Weekend? #SundaySpeedPoll Vote NOW!🚨
Tell us why it was the standout in the comments below!
#Formula1 #F1 #HungarianGP 🇭🇺
#IMSA Weathertech @roadamerica 🇺🇸
#NASCAR Cup #IowaCorn350 @iowaspeedway 🇺🇸
#NASCAR #XfinitySeries #HyVeePerks250 @iowaspeedway 🇺🇸
33%Formula 1 Hungarian GP
50%IMSA WT Road America
17%NASCAR Cup Iowa
0%NASCAR Xfinity Iowa
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Jeff Kerr retweeted
An important new paper by the Institute for Family Studies shows how low property taxes are actually negative for families and fertility.
In essence, seniors are incentivized to hold much larger houses than they need while young people are priced out of those houses. 🧵
“Property tax carveouts overwhelmingly tax young families to subsidize everyone else.” @lymanstoneky @FamStudies ifstudies.org/blog/cutting-p…
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City of Sandusky plans 100-mile trail to bridge gap between multiple cities news5cleveland.com/news/loca…
Exciting developments are underway for regional connectivity! Plans are in motion for a 100-mile trail system to link communities along the Sandusky Bay coastline, enhancing accessibility for pedestrians and cyclists while driving economic growth.
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Radiator Springs, that forlorn stop in Pixar’s Cars, glows with a faded ache—bypassed by progress, left to rust along Route 66.
Bay View knows the tune. It was a boomtown once, boats thudding at the docks, voices weaving a waterfront hymn—until the bridge was removed and the music died, dust cloaking what remained. But a new note rises.
The Sandusky Bay Pathway, 100 miles from Vermilion to Port Clinton, will one day connect a dozen waterfront communities. A million visitors a year could come—wheels on trails, commerce stirring, Bay View lifting its head. Not a path, but a promise: what was lost can shine again.
#SanduskyBayPathway
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