A Line hadn’t pulled away from the airport yet and it was already sardine-full! People were walking away rather than trying to cram in further. Needs 3-car trains and/or more frequent evening service, otherwise people get burned. On a Wednesday as well!!

Nice little run this morning in Philly, extraordinary how well used the Schuylkill River trail was around 11am on a Friday. Every $ spent improving and greening this infrastructure will be returned in spades I think!

Stepped off the bus at York Street and immediately saw a celebration coming together hosted by Denver Streets Partnership celebrating bus riders and the new and MUCH improved service on Colfax. Had to get my photo taken, this is going to be world-class BRT when it’s done!

Great remarks ahead of a festive groundbreaking with the Mayor, CM Hinds, and other civic leaders talking about connectivity and human-centered streets. This is a “social benefit just as much as an economic benefit purpose,” as DDP’s Andrew Iltis says. Great place to start!!

The best pilot of this policy, IMO, upzones Denver's most homogenous, suburban neighborhoods. It would avoid complicated historic district regulations, leave room in Central Denver for bigger jumps in density, and more consistently apply zoning rather than entrench mistakes.

B/w High and Franklin, b/w 22nd and 23rd Avenue, the zoning is U-SU-B, which means there shouldn't be duplexes and there shouldn't be rowhomes. But there are!!! Everywhere!!!

I walk my dogs up and down these blocks constantly. The existing zoning is contradicted by the built environment every few homes. B/w High and Franklin right along 21st Avenue there is much more density than the zone district would suggest, and more than UHC would bestow

City Park West is an object lesson!! Look at the existing zoning. This pilot proposal for UHC leaves a gap in CPW b/w High and Franklin Streets, b/w 21st and 23rd (which continues vertically to 29th in Whittier). From 21st–22nd is TU zoning, 22nd–23rd is SU zoning

Lastly, this pilot phase of UHC is applied arbitrarily across neighborhoods and Council districts in a way that's ahistoric and papers over existing issues in zoning. Let's take for example this particular hole in City Park West, the place where I live

Obviously I'm a YIMBY. Apartments should be permissable in Alamo Placita, Cole, and GES. Rail and BRT should make possible new housing in previously exclusive neighborhoods. UHC doesn't extend a place-based understanding of housing compatability and production nearly far enough