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Denton TX transit & urbanism. Denton ZBA Commissioner - All opinions are my own My live tweets of govt meetings are "excellent" per the mayor she/they
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dentontransitposts
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my municipality declared amateur fireworks illegal, and also separately switched to a drone show. purely anecdotal, but haven't noticed a swing in illegal launches with the drone show
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Bolts
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Many U.S. states disenfranchise people for years after they've been in prison, in some places for life.
The U.K. allows people to vote if they're not in prison. In France, people can mostly vote from prison, let alone after. boltsmag.org/how-voting-w...
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here in North Texas we have a guy named "Literally Anybody Else." Maybe we can get somebody named "Generic Democrat"
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Iron Spike
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Consider this your reminder to watch Scavengers Reign on Netflix and juice the fuck outta its numbers and convince whoever needs convincing that there’s a place for amazing, adult-audience animation in the world. Thank u.
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"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...
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Joe Katz
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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This take is baffling. People were loudly saying this in 2016, large chunks of lefty dissenters maintained it was just a scare tactic, and then the lesser evil lost and the greater evil won and this is the direct result of that. The squishy liberal mind was proven emphatically correct
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TWU is looking to buy a bus route from DCTA. Here's my take on route alignment options.
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Moira Donegan
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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.
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Bolts
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Minnesota became the latest state to eliminate prison gerrymandering last month.
A new law will end the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state. boltsmag.org/minnesota-en...
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1) the courts legalize bribery 2) the courts abolish Chevron, giving themselves far more things to be bribed on
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Brendan Nyhan
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"the Court has begun to implement the policy preferences of its conservative majority in a new and troubling way: by simultaneously stripping power from every political entity except the Supreme Court itself"
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Heatmap News
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Presented without comment.
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DCTA is looking to grow, bring in more cities to either intro service like a small paratransit, a taste of GoZone, etc, and maybe then get them as full members. someone drug me and wake me up on 30 years when they've managed to get a rail corridor along 380
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dropping 2.5M into positive train control upgrades, which are needed (thanks to the FTA) but man is that stuff expensive
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Also 400k on planning for the A-Train service improvements, which I'm very excited for
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they're putting 300k towards the long range service planning effort and 100k towards bus stop facilities planning
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they're dedicating some funds to AED installation, Pat Smith encourages them to add Narcan as well, which I agree with. Also redesigning the bike/pedestrian areas of the bus pool at the train station, and other small safety/maintenance items
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(also to provide Discovery Park bc lordy, that thing is very loaded all the time)
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if the routes were well designed, not just UNT students would use these routes, they *do not* just cover UNT students homes, lots of folks live in these coverage areas, but the route design really only caters to students. fix that, and then use UNT $$ to juice the routes that serve students most
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DCTA calculates that their cost per service hour is $160. I don't think they could extract that from UNT without collapsing the whole UNT system, as I've said a long time, DCTA needs to spend Denton money to build a strong network, then use UNT/TWU money to augment that network for the Unis
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looks like they're doing the same GoZone-usage study and potentially geofencing the UNT bus route travel sheds. If they're going to do this (and they should!) it's *really* time to begin network redesign to make the whole thing cohere together. this would save DCTA millions in GoZone ride costs
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now, DCTA receives lots of grant funding from the federal government, which is ridership based, so it's hard to math the whole thing out (as some UNT riders double or triple count into connect and A-Train). DCTA seems to be taking a "cost cutting" approach, not a "charge more" approach
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oops I threaded like 5 things off this. click it to see all of them. So this year DCTA can renegotiate the UNT contract this year, which they struck back in 2019. They point out that the total cost of UNT services by DCTA is 6.5M, and DCTA charges them 3.1M
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DCTA is charging UNT about $72/hr for bus operations, which I think is a pretty decent discount given to UNT? If I'm remembering the FTA reports, I think they were clocking in about $110/hr in operational costs for the last filing year which was...2022? (it's been months since I looked at this)
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interestingly, the entire bus fleet also uses about 1/4M gallons of fuel.
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their total spend on bus wages and benefits will increase 1.15M, mostly in the benefits portion, although operators are getting a decent pay bump, so it's not that they're not raising pay much, its that they're providing MUCH better benefits.
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GZone increasing from 10.45M to 11.34M as costs rise and they expand hours by 6%. They expect to spend $700k less on the train next year than they budgeted this year, primarily due to cheaper gas. (they plan to use 1/4M gallons of fuel!!)
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Budget workshop time DCTA. DCTA is slicing $1M off their operating budget next year, but they anticipate their fixed route emphasis and shifting GoZone riders to buses will allow them to more ridership with less spend (I feel like a bunch of people said that a lot but idk)
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GoZone has already taken over paratransit for trips entirely within Denton and Lewisville/HV. (to mixed success IMO - paratransit GoZone vans are not specially dedicated to para trips) TJ Gilmore says, as mayor, SPAN's funding instability has gotten him a lot of comments in his inbox.
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DCTA is looking to takeover SPAN trips using GoZone. SPAN covers para transit trips within the county, but DCTA could serve cross-zone SPAN trips and add additional SPAN-only GoZone Zones for non-member cities, with funding from the North-Central TX Council of Govts.
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Gonna go draft some stuff on this as soon as this meeting ends. This is very good
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it's a bit out of TWU's budget, so they're trying to revise it, but the timeline here is fast. TWU has made an agreement to house students at the two marked apartments at the south side, is the impetus for this
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NEW BUS ROUTE DISCUSSION JUST DROPPED! This service area looks great, I don't like the route, (it would be a bit clearer why if I overlayed the UNT route network on top of this), but I think to fix it you'd have to go in and do other network revisions. They're targeting August rollout
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Few minutes late to the DCTA meeting, they're just wrapping up discussinf bringing GoZone to Frisco
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Bedrooms Are For People
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"Activists pushing San Diego to take over the city’s investor-owned utility aren’t letting last year’s defeat of a similar effort in Maine deter their goal of establishing a nonprofit power company."
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SED Small Area Plan will be up for adoption on July 17 at 5PM!
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passes 5-0. Chair Ellis says she's so glad to see this and it's been a long time coming.
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dentontransitposts
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ok rayzor ranch overlay district cleanup/edits. Apparently all the ordinances got put in different places, new ones referred to old ordinances rather than replacing them fully, and it's just a mess. So they want to create a consolidated RR zoning overlay rather than 20 different ordinances
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I need to look more into serving industrial areas, I strongly suspect the single use of the entire district makes it hard to serve efficiently, but perhaps not
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Something like this might work, but industrial sectors are *very* hard to serve well due to the nature of shift work - if you can get there at 3PM by bus but the network stops running before midnight... Even if you have full coverage, buses don't handle a few hundred ppl at once
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Another Light Industrial rezoning, this time just south of 380 west of Masch branch. Going from RR (rural residential) to LI, mostly surrounded by vacant or gas well properties. Man we need to get transit out to the in industrial zone
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Eric Pruett says the runoff is likely due to the expansion of 380 to being a metric ton of asphalt, and he will be voting yes. Villareal says he will be voting no. Vote comes back 4-1 (P&Z is down one member, one member is absent)
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next commenter says the video of a flooding backyard the previous commenter shared is the result of a development from 20 years ago so "the planning and engineering doesn't always work does it?"
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staff also says state law prohibits drainage planning right now, or even in platting, it cannot be required until the development stage.
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staff says sometimes post-development results in less/safer runoff bc they can engineer improvements over the existing conditions. commenter doesn't seem convinced
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staff emphasizes that state law forbids more runoff water post-development than there was pre-development, although that is not a zoning question
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another neighbor expresses concern that some types of development might cause flooding areas in the ESA (environmentally sensitive area), in this case a creek in the area, which he lives on the side of.
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