kevinburke

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by kevinburke 3mo ago
The code is a legal requirement. If the code did not set mandatory minimum widths for parking stalls, builders could still set them at 9 feet wide. The point is that if you are builder who wants to build a 7 foot wide parking stall (or avoi
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
I'm just saying that people should have the choice to build a building without parking if they think that it makes more sense to use the ground floor for other things. Currently, they do not - they are required to build 9 foot wide par
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
I don't really like being called dishonest, there's a pretty broad literature showing the potential gains of cross ventilation even with a small amount of wind. It's extremely rare to have a day without wind at even 2mph and
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
Yes - this proves my point - both of those 3 bedroom floor plans are for corner units. They have windows on two sides because they are corner units. In a podium building you only have so many corner units, everything else is 1 or 2 bedroom
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
Sure. One thing we could do is waive requirements about how wide parking stalls need to be, and parking aisles, and how many parking spaces you need, and then let builders make those decisions for themselves.
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
The far bigger danger to kids from an abuse perspective is the adult driver in the front seat and from a safety perspective is the poor average quality of human driving. And a self driving car is capable of locking all the doors, identifyin
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
The garage sits underneath the housing in this case.
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
Right, the difference is you can see from charts of miles driven by Waymo etc. that the technology is clearly ready. If it was not ready they would not have been able to raise money at a $126 billion valuation.
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
When was the last time you looked at a chart of Waymo passenger miles driven?
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
My sense is that parents are pretty tired of driving their kids to and from things and if it was possible for your kids to take a self driving car to school or to activities or to camp that would be a pretty attractive proposition. The scho
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
It's extraordinarily difficult, and expensive, to convert parking garage space to housing - the heights are different, it's not designed with the same egresses, the floor material is concrete. It also affects what the ground floor
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
You've got this backwards - big elevators with union labor mean that they're an expensive undertaking that only large multifamily buildings can afford. Smaller, more affordable elevators mean that they're less of a luxury ite
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
The Maxis offices are about two hundred yards from this site!
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
I'm Googling for "Des Moines apartments" and clicking on any that I find that have double loaded corridors and so far I'm 0 for 4 on finding any that have a three bedroom apartment. Finally found one on my fifth try. Her
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
Walnut Creek is in PG&E territory where peak hour energy is 54 cents/kwh right now. And the difference is A/C is paid by the renter not the building owner. If you want to address cost of living one thing we could do is make it
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
With respect, people who drive used cars are not renting brand new apartments in downtown Walnut Creek. It does not make sense to mandate parking standards in new buildings that assume 100% of cars will be driven by humans who park and then
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by kevinburke 3mo ago
The point is the city's parking code assumes that every car has a human driver that needs to park and then exit the car. This informs the choices about how wide the spaces and how wide the aisles are. Even if only some of the cars had
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Why Can't Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?(kevin.burke.dev)
56 points by kevinburke 3mo ago|88 comments
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by kevinburke 11mo ago
If I'm reading this right that only lets you set the application name, not a specific profile inside the browser.
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Let Us Open URL's in a Specific Browser Profile(kevin.burke.dev)
4 points by kevinburke 11mo ago|3 comments
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by kevinburke 1y ago
The confidential information will be the detailed financial statements.
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by kevinburke 2y ago
This is why I adjusted SF’s offer for population and then multiplied it by 50%, then used 400 million as the base for financing. Financing at 4% interest is not the expensive part though. Even if the price was $1 billion it would be 6 cents
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by kevinburke 2y ago
This has not been the case with the three operators in the Bay Area - Santa Clara, Palo Alto, and Alameda.
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by kevinburke 2y ago
Bankruptcy would not help because you’d still have some entity managing the entire coverage area. The gain comes from creating a market for lemons.
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by kevinburke 2y ago
Thank you, I got the same impression, I have relatives and friends who work in government roles for local and statewide energy operators and ran this post by them, hopefully I did not butcher the details too much.
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by kevinburke 2y ago
Not just rural areas but places like Orinda and the Berkeley Hills where I will pay to underground lines at massive expense. There is also a huge moral hazard problem where we make it cheaper than it should be to live in fire zones by subsi
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by kevinburke 2y ago
The flip side of this is that more and more homes are being built in fire zones in large part because we subsidize development in fire zones. It's a bad problem because of bad incentives. We should incentivize urban living
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by kevinburke 2y ago
Highly recommend reading the state LAO report which goes into the cost structure behind the large utilities. https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4950 As well as Palo Alto's utility financial statement whic
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by kevinburke 2y ago
I'm the author here. The cost savings come from not having people who live in cities pay for undergrounding lines and maintaining power lines in rural areas. Maintaining the city networks is much cheaper. This is why Santa Clara, Palo

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