Love your term "discretionary review as ransomware". It is!

A lot of urban planners in the US are still very much anti-density---they just believe they are not

I've only ever heard good zoning reforms called "one size fits all" planning by people who are fundamentally suburban and anti-housing. Depressing if that's the board of the transit agency...

Tasteful midrise development, built incrementally

American Planning Association once again revealing its fundamentally anti-change, anti-urban philosophical orientation in another propaganda pamphlet: design standards that are technically objective but also insanely complex and largely meaningless in terms of actual design

NIMBY septuagenarians lost one of their greatest prophets this month 😭

Great thread that would be helpful for everyone to know at pretty much every planning hearing about new housing