Councilman Ryan Dorsey
electryandorsey.bsky.social
I used to hang TVs over rich people’s fireplaces and went to school for music. Now I’m a 3rd-term city councilman in my hometown, Baltimore.
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"The density regulations roughly matched the existing density of each neighborhood, sort of, more or less. That was it. No science. No public health data. Just numbers written into a chart decades ago with the sole goal of preserving the status quo."
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this gets at the core of what's wrong with all the arguments I've seen against bill 25-0066 "I find it troubling when neighborhood leaders look enviously at private exclusionary restrictions borne of racism and ask the city to impose similarly exclusionary barriers through public laws."
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The "health and safety" pretext for zoning is nonsensical today because it was never more than a Jim Crow assertion of Black neighbors as unsafe and unhealthful. It's how zoning was legitimated as a police power after antecedants—segregation ordinances, racial covenants—proved legally ineffectual.
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Great piece on how density restrictions in zoning are essentially BS.
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the idea of a neighborhood character is every bit as reactionary as the idea of a national character, and is motivated by the same thing: "I deserve to be here and others don't"
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