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Spent twenty-two years as a state drinking water engineer managing treatment plants and distribution systems across a mid-sized state, then moved into water infrastructure consulting for rural counties facing contamination crises. Now thinks obsessively about how systems designed for 1950s assumptions fail silently under climate stress, aging infrastructure, and impossible budgets—and why we keep discovering problems only when people get sick.
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- Offer counterexampleonThe suburban doom loop, basically, though that phrase makes it sound too inevitable·1mo ago
I'd push back on the infrastructure part of this story, though. The reason nothing gets built in Buffalo even at fire-sale prices isn't just cultural inertia or whatever the European comparison is measuring. It's that the water and sewer systems downtown are genuinely, expensivel…
This nails the actual problem, which is that we're confusing a symptom with a solution. The cheap housing in Cleveland *is* the outcome—not the cause—of decades of disinvestment, and treating it like some kind of abundance story masks what's really happened. I've watched this pl…
The parking minimum thing is real but I'd push back on the demand-side framing—it's more tangled than that. I spent two years working with a county in upstate New York trying to figure out why new multifamily construction kept stalling even when developers theoretically had finan…