So it isn’t density, it is parking requirements. It’s important to separate the two issues. I get it. Especially pre-1960's neighborhoods where off-street parking for the existing homes wasn’t a requirement, let alone accounting for ADUs. Also sounds like a situation that is solved with residential permit parking on…

why concerned about ADUs?

how about something truly useful. Brick all servers, programs, email, etc. used by russians. Just kill them all dead. All data interconnects, everything. Send the whole country dark. 

I find it hilarious that Real Estate Developer is listed here. Sure there can be good pay, but there are very few jobs available, and there is alot of risk. Essentially, if you aren’t building or selling a project, you aren’t making any money. Literally none. And worse, you can be spending a ton of money, anywhere…

At some point we need to realize that gas tax isn’t funding road infrastructure, but highway glut spending. It isn’t actually maintaining our roads as they are.

Permitting pre-1990 was over the counter on both zoning & building. So less than 1 day. For larger development projects, you could have full approval in 30-60 days. Now, here in the SE, really everywhere, it is 9-12 months.

You also can’t confuse single family permitting, HGTV or tear-down and replace, with larger…

This is a joke right? we aren’t even building at our last peak in building capacity. In fact we are starting to slow starts and will likely reverse new housing product due to the supply constraints. We are only producing 1.7m new housing starts this year. No where near the 2.0m of 2004.

And if you really want to get…

Building takes 2-3 years to bring any new product to market. That assumes ideal conditions. 1 year for permitting, design, financing, 1-2 years for construction. And permitting is getting harder.

Land is never the biggest expense in building. 

jason should really think 2x before he dives into the world of typography and their nerds. They will eat him alive. Affectation for weird VW taillights or not, they don’t tolerate people who don’t have a deep understanding of typefaces and their history. 

I feel like we would get better prosecutors if they were barred from ever seeking public office. Too many use it as their launchpad for other public office. 

agreed. this was the legit use of the slideshow feature. 

Sucks to have a minivan for hunting, fishing, or construction. 

A tacoma is not spacious. If you are going to recommend a mid-size downgrade from a full size truck, you have to go with either a canyon/colorado twin, or the ranger. Hell the new maverick is more spacious than the tacoma. Just a bad recommendation.

I’ve literally bought and installed signs like this before. Hell I even designed and done the calcs for the install support and foundation. The sign is a print with additional reflective tape. Takes about an hour to print in a shop. They just had to replace the word. They may have even done a reprint over and glued it…

It’s different managing your own crew, and managing other managers who manage their own crews. I have to guide, i don’t know, 2 dozen different entities, all with differing agendas and goals, into producing achieving multiple complex projects across various locations. When I was running a small team it was a tight…

agreed, which is why we focus on fastener sizes and special inspections rather than on signage misspellings of commonly misspelled words. And often even if we know whose fault it is, is it worth the battle / blame? The sign costs what $1k on a multi-million dollar project? What if they sign company says? Sorry we…

No one is at fault actually describes most situations. If you want ultimate responsibility fine, it’s my job as development manager. I’ll take it. Even if I didn’t have anything to actually do with the problem, I’ll take the blame. I’ll fix it. Like I said, these can go through dozens of people’s review and stuff is…

You have to balance QC vs time, effort, and honestly importance. Some signage packages can be 1,000 pages. Is it critical to make sure that every spelling is right? or is it more important to make sure that the PT cable reports are checked & rechecked for the bridge or the safety barricade? Remaking a sign isn’t that…

As someone who actually does this as part of their job, this stuff happens all the time. And it may not even be the contractor’s fault. It happens. Things like this, especially when no one is at fault, is what development contingency is for.

I remember one sign the software in the CAM machine couldn’t process the…