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Scott Hand retweeted
#Ohio's Republican supermajority passed SB 56 to gut the adult use marijuana law you voted for. Help stop them: NoOnSB56.com – at Ohio, USA
Ohioans for Cannabis Choice
Ohio businesses deserve better. Ohio voters deserve a choice.
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NEW: Ohio activists are cleared to start collecting signatures to repeal a state law that added more criminal penalties to marijuana usage and totally banned "intoxicating" hemp products.
@WEWS @WCPO @OhioCapJournal
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Scott Hand retweeted
PeopleForBikes is working to create more safe places to ride in neighborhoods like yours across the U.S. Your support helps us create real change, city by city, state by state. Better biking starts with you! Donate today at bit.ly/3X7LBox.
Scott Hand retweeted
I’m beating a dead horse at this point but the other dumb thing is it isn’t about cost savings from eliminating stairs. The starting assumption shows a complete lack of understanding.
The purpose of single stair is the ability to design small infill buildings, with more family sized units. Buildings of 12-24 homes, on small lots, as opposed to huge buildings of 120-240 shoe-box shaped “units” with a single wall for windows.
The first is one stair. For 24 homes.
The second has two. For 240 units.
Anyone see how foolish this belief that it’s about minor savings from dropping a stairwell is? By default it’s more stairs per unit.
The diagram below does a good job showing the overall intent and use of a point access block - repeating, fully fire-separated small buildings. Notice how it’s much skinnier than the typical 5-over-1 people complain about? the cross ventilation, dual aspect of windows that lets these live more like a “home” vs what most Americans think of when you say apartment.
Relatedly, it’s not large developers pushing for these reforms. It’s small local ones and individual advocates for more family-friendly housing and more affordable housing where it’s most lacking. Large developers are more than happy with the existing format, raising institutional capital to build hundreds of studios and 1 bedroom apartments.
Real relevance for Calgary.
Is single egress worth the cost savings? One stair means one way out. When smoke fills that space, there is no backup for residents or firefighters. Calgary can build housing and still build safely.
The question is what level of risk we accept.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This building had two staircases. The post is misleading by talking about having only a single way out.
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It's too late to avoid damage now, but we'll talk to any legislator to collaborate on a solution to support Ohio businesses and manufactuing, instead of ruining them.
Every Democratic legislator voted against this bill. Nearly every Republican voted for it
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Scott Hand retweeted
The presidential pardon system has reached a breaking point, which is why I have joined Reps. Cohen, Lieu, and H. Johnson in proposing a Constitutional amendment that finally puts guardrails on abuse. The amendment would explicitly prohibit a self-pardon and would bar pardons for family members, administration officials, and campaign employees. It would also forbid pardons for anyone whose crimes were committed to advance the direct and significant personal interests of a President or those close to a President, or whose crimes were carried out at the direction of a President. It further clarifies that no pardon issued for a corrupt purpose is valid, whether past, present, or future.
The need for reform is clear. A tool meant to correct injustices has instead enabled them. It is time to protect the Constitution and the rule of law with common sense limits that restore public trust.
Scott Hand retweeted
US traffic engineering absolutely sucks ass at safe systems and is about five decades behind peer nations.
If professionals in any other discipline showed the same disregard for human life that is standard in TE, they would be fired, fined into penury and face criminal charges.
After hitting a low in 2009, U.S. deaths of people walking have climbed roughly 80%, erasing over 30 years of progress. People focus on the right half but decades of work by traffic engineers focusing on safety brought the downturn until 2009 and continues with the goal of vision zero as the North Star.
This extra language would harm our business in Ohio, too (that uses hemp from KY). I expect @SenJonHusted and @berniemoreno to support Senator Paul!
Just to be clear: I am not delaying this bill. The timing is already fixed under Senate procedure. But there is extraneous language in this package that has nothing to do with reopening the government and would harm Kentucky’s hemp farmers and small businesses.
Standing up for Kentucky jobs is part of my job.
Scott Hand retweeted
In short, every state program that has codified Hemp products will shutter. Hemp farmers will go out of business. 330,000 Americans will lose their jobs. There is no "state legal" hemp.
So if this passes what’s the practical effect? @cantripguy - does this mean larger retailers pull back? Smaller retailers stay in the game and gain share under state legal regs like MN?
Big price drop on this lot if anyone's looking to build on east Riverside.
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Scott Hand retweeted
🇪🇺🚅 High–Speed Rail Master Plan for Europe finally unveiled today! €500 billion project; one ticketing app, one Railway Area
Cincinnati, we could also officially legalize 6-Story Single Stair apartment buildings city-wide!
Baltimore just did. It just takes political will.
Scott Hand retweeted
The left photo is a new American ladder truck. The right is a model common in Germany.
-Guess which country has better fire safety statistics.
-Now guess which has fewer pedestrian deaths.
Bonus questions:
-which carries more water?
-which carries more crew?
Scott Hand retweeted
"There’s a lot of anger and frustration in this room, and it’s not just the result of this most recent betrayal. You have shown all of us, all of Ohio, that politicians cannot be involved in drawing district lines."
-Mia Lewis, @CommonCauseOhio
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cars made the whole world forget how to build green, walkable cities, but we're waking up
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“The majority party has failed to produce a single proposed map for public review, shutting citizens out of the process and making it impossible to give meaningful feedback."
-Catherine Turcer, Common Cause Ohio
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Scott Hand retweeted
It’s a great day to contact your congressional representatives
Screenshot with a reply that you completed this form to stop a federal redefinition of hemp & ill DM you a 50% off code to be used at coastalo.com
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