Nathaniel Hood
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A wild night for Coach Walz and Mankato West football! I could not be happier for Tim and Gwen
What a dream!
I am so thankful to be part of this amazing group, Walz’s great staff, and all DNC delegates!
Thanks to all who reached out. I’ll reply when I can!
#DNCConvention2024
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Gen Z may not know this, but there were once coffee shops that only served drip coffee, had a random old couches that were never clean, stayed open until 4am, and their clientele was composed of exclusively college students and recovering alcoholics
And they were awesome
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Hot Take: 🔥
This is awesome, we need more of it, and we need to reduce red tape ‘barriers to entry’ so more people can do it (legally)
Some of the best food I’ve ever eaten were from street vendors
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We should probably just build row houses because those tiny house side-yards are absolutely worthless
I've been following these tiny home sales on the east side of San Antonio for a little while. They have more inventory available now than anytime I've noticed in the past, and we're starting to see some decent discounts.
What would you pay for this 661 SF home?
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I am fully supportive of removing the asphalt and just bringing the brick street back
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On behalf of all Minnesotans, I want to apologize
IF
@Tim_Walz
is selected as VP, we will be insufferable through Election Day!
#DuckDuckGreyDuck
#WalzForVP
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Fingers crossed 🤞 for Mr. Walz, one heck of a teacher, coach, lunchroom supervisor, and Governor
Don’t blow this, Kamala!!!
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Saint Paul Brewing is really the best patio in the city
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Schools: “We can’t get students to school because of a bus driver shortage”
Also, Schools: “Check out our brand new State-of-the-Art Middle School!”
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“La Sombrita” so perfectly encapsulates the failings of contemporary planning:
An expensive sub-optimal solution only needed due to existing regulatory codes conflicting with a city’s own goals, done by consultants, disguised as “equity” & ending with ribbon cutting media event
At press event for new
@LADOTofficial
@cd1losangeles
bus stop shade/light structure “la sombrita” at 3rd & Union
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Adding new supply is virtually undefeated
Over the past 5 years, the local college just added around 550 new dorm/apartment rooms & there are 3 new multifamily developments nearby
Now, the landlord will have to reduce rent or offer incentives to lease
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Meanwhile in Mankato …
Someone is getting one last Arby’s Beef N’ Cheddar with curly fries before the levy breaks
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This reply from a City Engineer explains why half of the USA is marked in red and black on this map
If this were any other kind of fatality map, we'd just straight up copy whatever Europe was doing and apply it everywhere in the U.S.
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Minnesota missed a golden opportunity to continue our streak of being extra weird
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Americans “prefer” sprawl because it's the only legal option and we need to live somewhere
Planners' preference for urban density should not supersede Americans' preferences for suburban or exurban living.
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At his induction into our high school’s Hall of Fame,
@Tim_Walz
hung around to help put the chairs away
Also, Hi Mrs. Palmer!!
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Breaking news:
University of St. Thomas students for have officially setup a Pro-Palestine En’Glampment
Students at Hamline University occupied Old Main, the central administration building, last Friday and stayed into Saturday night, seeking reassurances Hamline would tally and make public its investments in companies associated with the Israeli war on Gaza.
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Happened in Tahoe too
Banned STRs, values dropped and wealthy people got deals on 2nd homes that mostly sit vacant
NOW instead of having new visitors weekly, local biz seeing less foot traffic & AirBNBs are now *not* paying an addt'l 14% sales tax to the public coffers
Let’s all repeat this again…
Banning Airbnbs won’t make housing more affordable
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Single-stair reform isn’t going to fix the housing crisis, but it will fix whatever this is
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I was reading about why Japanese cities have such a healthy, thriving walkable small business districts:
Permissive zoning & low barriers to entry
… and it makes many of their streetscapes look & feel fantastic
A classic case of:
Chaotic, but Smart
VS.
Orderly, but Dumb
@Jason
Don’t plan them top down / doesn’t work. Create incentives and eliminate bureaucratic barriers for investors and builders.
Societies only prosper bottom up, driven by the initiative and choices of free people. To do the most good, let’s get the philosophical foundations right.
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Why the New Urbanist obsession with “breaking up the massing”?
Because when the movement was coming up, this was being built as the default streetscape:
It’s a rational reaction against this, but clearly strict implementation has created its own monsters
“Breaking up the massing” makes buildings look worse.
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🤦♂️
Why the New Urbanist obsession with “breaking up the massing”?
Because when the movement was coming up, this was being built as the default streetscape:
It’s a rational reaction against this, but clearly strict implementation has created its own monsters
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How do I curate my Twitter feed so I only see stuff like this?
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It’s funny that many conservatives are just rooting for the downfall Minneapolis when no one who lives in downtown Minneapolis is like:
“I really hope the City of Willmar shits the bed!”
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This is the Blockbuster turning down Netflix of transit decisions
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As we approach the 4th of July, I wanted to issue a friendly neighborly request:
PLEASE keep your children and dogs quiet these next few mornings. Some of us have been up all night setting off fireworks
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My favorite thing about the new Minnesota flag is Republicans researching the geography of Somalia
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In solidarity with the City of Saint Paul, the Stone Arch Bridge will be closing at 8pm
✊✊✊
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Me: “I hope my former neighbor, teacher and coach becomes Vice President”
Internet weirdos:
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@LaVelleNeal
Counterpoint:
Living in a building with stadium views is a dream. It’s a beautiful thing.
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@BDFphotography
It is. Transportation history peaking through the cracks of poorly maintained infrastructure
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Late to
@ezraklein
show, but my favorite takeaway from
@Tim_Walz
is "keep policy simple”
Too often, left policy reads like a PhD thesis in Physics & imposes a burden on both recipients & civil servants
Walz is right: policy should be simple
I talked with Ezra Klein about what reinvesting in rural America looks like, and why guys like Trump and Vance get it all wrong:
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@nikicaga
@JordanBobWayne
Also, Eli Klein Tweet is rife with misinfo:
1) It wasn’t 100yrs old
2) Person responsible was prosecuted/charged
3) Statute was repaired & is being stored at Capitol
4) Board responsible for Capitol is working to replace it with memorial honoring dedicated to Italian Americans
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Forget big plans, St Paul should aim to replicate Hopkins’ Main Street
Even at 7:30 on Tuesday night with sub-zero, the modest downtown was happening. It felt alive: restaurants busy, yoga in street-level studios, people out walking
Felt like people deeply cared about the place
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“I’ve lived and owned a home in this neighborhood for 38 years …”
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@Nickyreed__
I forgot to add something about random flyers for local events and guitar lessons pinned everywhere — Thea e places were like mini-billboards for hyper-local advertising
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Regardless of what happens to the People Over Parking Act, there’s already one clear winner:
@DonaldShoup
‘s book sales
Yes! Let’s pass the People over Parking Act, MN and end minimum parking mandates!
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Thanks to Bally Sports North, renting here is the only reliable way to watch Twins games from your living room
Twins cant be happy about this monstrosity going up.
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Vacation with children = Traveling across the country to watch them play at a different playground
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The side yards would be better if the fencing was moved up to be flush with the front of the house
This would allow private storage space (storage shed) or option to build a covered/shaded backyard patio that would be good in the Texas summer heat
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Note:
Because I’ve seen some weird accusations: I’ve never been paid by Walz or his campaign, nor have I worked as staff
In fact, I was TWICE rejected by him to be on the Met Council. Unfortunately for me (but good overall), Walz doesn’t really do nepotism
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@tiebartester
At this rate, we’re paying for constant vehicle maintenance from potholes anyway
If you’re gonna go broke on repairs, make it look good, right?
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What I like about St Paul is that Minneapolis politics is just too exhausting & dysfunctional
In MPLS, it'll be like: "Council, Mayor Clash over Parking Services Director!!"
In St Paul, everyone generally works together & don't do cheap shots to win short-term political points
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Counterpoint:
Living in a building with stadium views is a dream. It’s a beautiful thing.
Twins cant be happy about this monstrosity going up.
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There are other factors in affordability that can play out locally - I’m not blind to those - but generally speaking, the easiest thing a city can do is just allow new stuff
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Having tweeted multiple jokes on Senator Mitchell’s situation, I want to clarify that, based on new information, the story is no longer funny and has shifted it into the “just sad all around” category
Minnesota State Senator Nicole Mitchell (DFL Woodbury) is charged with burglary. The criminal complaint says she broke into the home of her late father to retrieve belongings, while her stepmother did not want her there.
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Carrying capacity of a used VW Tiguan for the price of a Midwestern house
If you have to keep saying “My Cybertruck is a real truck” then it isn’t a real truck
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Come spring, I’m going to miss the road diets & safer crossings
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@BrandonBoat
I’m going on aesthetics alone & naïvely assuming we’ll figure out a solution to those other problems
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Ah yes, homeowners have rent control*
*except when my property taxes go up 18% in a single year, insurance costs go up 11%, water and sewer up 9%, and I’m on the hook for $6k when my HVAC blows
It's professional malpractice to write about rent control in 2023 and not talk about St. Paul, where developers walked away, permits plummeted and the policy had to be partially rolled back
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It’s wild these buildings sit empty except for one day a year, when the owners serve coney dogs
Very St. Paul
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Minnesota just owning this map
Much has been made of the declining life expectancy in the US.
The reality is regional. Think of the US as two countries:
Some blue counties with increasing life-expectancy better than 🇯🇵 (84) & many red counties with plummeting life expectancy worse than 🇷🇺 (71).
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Being on the Planning Commission is receiving unhinged, bolded, ALL CAPS emails with grammatical errors opposed to a bike lane …
Only to discover it was sent by a well-renowned surgeon who went to a top medical school
Bike lanes just break the Baby Boomer brain 🤷♂️
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Lots of talk about Minnesota population stagnation
The biggest reason, in my opinion, is that it’s approaching June and we’ve had maybe 10 days of good weather
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How Midwestern are you?
I’ll start: I grocery shop at Menards
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It’s sad MN’s GOP celebrate bad conditions in Minneapolis (they love embarrassing us) & it’s toxic politics
I don’t see this elsewhere; never seen the ND Governor being like “F*** Fargo!”
Meanwhile, urban DFL seems in denial/ignoring that things *are* worse than they use to be
Went downtown Minneapolis last night to meet someone for dinner- Friday night, Big 10 tournament going on, nice weather. It was DEAD.
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As objectors virtue signal against the opinions of 95% of people, working-class airport/downtown service workers, who are unable to afford parking bear the burden of unsafe transit
Its not the privileged (who can opt out), it’s people who need transit who are being left behind
I use the light rail to get to the airport easily from Minneapolis. I’m really grateful that we are able to use this incredible technology to get around our city.
But on nights like this, I must continue the conversation of decency and yes— Safety, as a rider
@MetroTransitMN
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A top-notch visual —
This stretch of I-35 in Duluth has never made sense as a freeway; it provides little to no economic or social benefit and disconnects downtown from Canal Park and the lake
Shown to scale: I-35, Duluth and Lyndale Ave, Minneapolis. Both carry a similar amount of traffic.
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I’m a dad & I like to get to the airport real early
When did it become a big cultural punchline to be punctual?
“Haha! Dads get to the airport early!?!”
Hell yeah we do!
I spent $4k on this trip
I’m not missing flight because your sister threw up in the Uber again
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@scottdavisCRE
It’s not lot width that’s a problem, it is the side yard setbacks regs. Addt’l, drainage could very easily have been dealt with a different way
I’ll give the developer credit on hitting that price point (needed in most cities), but can’t help but think it’s inferior to townhomes
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While it’s been detrimental to new housing production, housing affordability, expanding our tax base, and improving our downtown through residential conversions …
On the plus side, we have provided the rest of the country with a great Case Study in “What Not To Do”
Any policy that adds costs or serves as a production roadblock should be a non-starter.
"After [St. Paul MN] voters approved rent control, applications for new multifamily buildings plummeted by 82 percent."
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I'm sorry, but it's not a "rural way of life"
There is a small active farm & an equestrian facility. The rest is exurban sprawl & a hobby airport
Baytown Township considers incorporation to protect rural way of life
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Minneapolis Twitter when they find out St. Paul did a better job plowing streets
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“This is your brain on parking minimums” Tiny House Edition
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The publicly-funded lobbyist organization owns an $11.4 million dollar office building with a 1.4 acre surface parking lot across the street from a high-frequency light rail station ...
... pays $0 in property taxes
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Word on the street is the Salut Bar Americain on St. Paul’s Grand Ave is closing. That’ll be another large space to fill (next to the now-empty Anthropologie)
The gut punches keep coming for Grand
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Part of this makes sense: develop shade at bus stops within existing codes
The problem is, with small changes to legislative text, city could easily exempt transit from the 24” rule & streamline bus shelter process to not require 8 (!) separate departmental reviews
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Environmental protection laws killing a zoning plan that creates & promotes walkable, car-free living 🤦♂️
A Hennepin County judge has again ruled Minneapolis must immediately stop using its 2040 plan, which received national acclaim for its aggressive approach to building more housing and managing urban sprawl but spurred pushback from residents.
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My vision for all small lots of Grand Ave —
i want to buy this thing and live in the top floor with my family. can you imagine if every site in the city allowed this? 13 apartments on a 5,500 sq ft standard lot in seattle. single stair!
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Congratulations to my friend’s dad, Randy Ballman, owner and operator of Master Touch Disaster Restorationa and Carpet Cleaning of Mankato, for his new beach house
Rapidan Dam just south of Manakto. Imminent failure condition. The video is surreal.
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Let’s not make everything a culture war. Let’s make a truce:
Conservatives STOP pretending you love the old flag
AND
Liberals stop pretending you love the new one
The old flag was a dud and the new one is almost as bad, but not technically racist
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I heard a podcast on Venezuelan migrants, trekking through jungles, deserts, and mountains, navigating bribes, gangs, corrupt officials, enduring sweltering heat, culminating in a 5,000-mile journey to the US border
That’s so badass
Why would we not want that person?
Spoke to a guy who escaped Cuba by wind surfing to Florida.
He said he’d just lay on his board overnight when the wind died down.
The courage to be laying on a board in the ocean in pitch black is wild.
Fascinating what people do for freedom.
Hats off. 🎩 🇺🇸
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St Paul's removal of parking requirements resulted in a big reduction in planning commission agenda items
This means less time spent on haggling over parking spots, leading to time savings and a reduction in neighborhood drama. We now have more time and fewer gray hairs
If
@MinnesotaCities
asked their members "If you could snap your fingers and your zoning code would have no parking mandates, would you do it?" most would say "yes." They know it's bad policy.
That's what Minnesota's parking reform bill does.
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Harper’s Ferry is peak small town American urbanism
Love it
Harper's ferry is easily one of the best places in the US served by trains
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I think a lot of this is about control
After St. Paul removed parking mins, the Planning Commission agendas got cut in half
No more did we have to weigh in on some poor sucker trying turn an SFH to a duplex who was being forced to cut down a tree & pave over an entire backyard
People Over Parking Act prioritizes private developers’ interests over
#MnCities
'. Cities know what’s best for their communities. We will advocate against policy that allows developers to make parking decisions for cities. Read
@jmax692
in
@StribOpinion
:
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@HelloImfelix
“Okay, here’s my business plan: We’re gonna charge $1.50 for a cup of coffee, give free refills, sell stale muffins, and let people will hang out occupying tables for 6 hours while writing bad poetry”
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@blueeyedbuster
In some specific cases, yes (if a building was demolished) but IMO the bigger culprits are competition from chains, shifts in consumer preferences towards convenience & speed, and increased operating costs (rent being only a portion of that)
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NextDoor is wild
You’ll be reading just the dumbest comments, only to look the person up to see they’re a well-respected surgeon who just can’t wrap their head around the parking lot at the new grocery store
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Upzoned neighborhoods saw a “29% decrease in apartment prices”
Geetika Nagpal
JMP: "Scaling Heights: Affordability Implications of Zoning Deregulation in India"
Website:
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What we think we’ll get
VS.
What we’ll actually get
On Monday the Minneapolis Planning Commission will consider a staff proposal to restrict exterior building materials. I'd love to hear opinions from people who know more about building materials than me! You can read the staff report here:
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I support Republican calls for Sen Mitchell to step down
AND
I look forward to seeing these SAME PEOPLE holding these SAME VIEWPOINTS on ethics, honor & civility in asking 91-time accused felony, Donald Trump, to step down as their nominee
After all, nobody likes a hypocrite
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New followers are going to be disappointed when they see half my tweets are about zoning and building code reform and anti-rent control 😂
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