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Fair enough. Art is in the eye of the beholder etc

This isn't far off from how it works. You can get prelim approval. But I believe you need to have final submittal 6 months later.

I intuitively agree but have learned that "Cities should be able to plan their own growth." is just too simplistic.

City planning is much too simplistic for the metropolises of California. Region planning is more apt.

The other lesson might be that 'city' is too broad a term. Some cities are standalone, some are just arbitrary boundaries within a metropolis. Maybe the latter should be eliminated and replaced with a metropolis-wide city.

Agreed, there should be a strict framework within such planning happens, to avoid the housing crisis that CA cities have created for those that don't own land. Japan is a great inspiration for planning like this. US planning, the entire field, is absolutely abhorrent, and should really be scrapped and rebuilt from scratch.

Chicken or egg.

The whole US was once walkable, then we massively subsidized driving for 2 generations, and now they are not walkable.

It's more about the city planners not having to be parking experts. Parking minimums are one of many subsidies to drivers in that they set a supply floor for parking spots. If driving is so popular then why do we have to shower drivers with money at every level of government?

The restaurant mentioned likely relies on street parking for those that drive there. As a shared & city owned resource it's within the purview of the city to manage it.

For the most part this story is overblown. Few cities have parking minimums in their cores these days. And you'll find few that support parking minimums there.

It would be interesting to see city ban all traffic in their area. No private or public vehicles, taxis, delivery trucks, busses or emergency vehicles. Just allow certain sized cargo bikes and like. The true only walking neighbourhood.

Within covid lockdown, plenty of restaurants have moved their seating into the street parking spaces in seattle, and they seem to be doing fine

Remember the emissions to manufacture the vehicle... they're higher for EVs. Lifecycle emissions for EVs therefore aren't much lower than ICE.

The lifetime emissions for EVs are massively lower than ICE's, unless the EV gets totalled in its first year of operation.

They are maybe 40-50% lower. Does this move the needle for climate change? No. And it’s not just lifetime car emissions. It’s the car dependent life that cars require

Source: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1129478_lifetime-carbon...

It's only 50% lower because most electricity grids emit a lot of carbon. Once the grid switches to 100% carbon-free, the number becomes a lot lower. And most of the embodied carbon in the car comes from industrial electricity or transport, so as the grid & transport goes green the embodied carbon goes down, eventually to zero.

Electricity only accounts for about 25% of greenhouse gas emissions, but it also enables industry (20%) and transportation (15%) to decarbonize too, by allowing them to replace their fuel with electricity.

A 50% reduction is already massive, but electrification of both vehicles and the industrial processes creating the vehicle will eventually let that number go to zero which should be our goal.

if you're adding those, you need to add the emissions when actually processing crude oil into gasoline.

This will not save the planet. We need to consume less, and walk/bike/take transit more. Fine, this may not be for you, but at least don't insist on a the rest of subsidizing you (untaxed climate externality).