aidanmackenzie.bsky.social
Infrastructure Fellow at @IFP. I post about permitting, geothermal and transit policy
👤 Joined on 15 November 2024
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@aidanmackenzie.bsky.socialThanks for sharing your thoughts on this. What are your thoughts on how this scenario would unfold? - Agency misses a deadline on reviewing a permit application - Applicant sues (?), judge rules in favor of applicant - Agency scrambles to meet a tight extension; hasty review contains mistakes
Show PostYIMBY as climate policy: "...moving sample households from a city with the characteristics of Atlanta to a city with the characteristics of Boston reduces annual VMTs by 25%." (Bento et al., 2005)
Show Post🧵 I want to make one point about the federal permitting bill. Before I do, I'd just encourage everyone who's interested in the details to listen to this podcast, which covers them ... extensively. There's a lot of complicated stuff in there & the cartoonish portrayals you see online are misleading.
Show PostBut Aidan, why rely on facts when you can sloppily read a 400 page bill and assume all your own information gaps are intentional loopholes?
Show PostWe wrote the Transit Abundance Playbook because transit costs 3x more to build in the US than in peer countries. We've now added new artwork with beautiful collages by Emma Steinhobel. Check it out at ifp.org/cheaper-transit.
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