eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Since we like to say "house people, not cars" and since people are 60% water, this is a step in the right direction. 170
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 18/07/2026"Democratizing density" is a clever way to make pulling up the ladder behind you sound acceptable. The haves get to kick the have-nots' legs out from under them. Why doesn't Ann Arbor get to have the cool and honorable Democratic Socialists who fight for equity and justice? 160
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 18/07/2026"Democratizing density" means home owners get to veto workforce housing in their neighborhood. Who're the home owners? Those who won the time and/or financial lottery -- they bought early enough or they have enough personal assets (or access to family assets) to pay highly inflated recent prices. 150
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Here are the current road resurfacing projects, most of them in neighborhoods far less wealthy than Burns Park. Burns Park isn't getting any work this year but has had some work in recent years. 060
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Stewart Beal also says that the wealthiest neighborhoods (i.e., the wealthiest citizens) need to be in the front of the line for city services. Notice how he focuses on the value of this Burns Park house and the amount of property taxes the homeowner pays. How does that fit within the DSA ethos? 280
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I think of a "downtown" as a mix of retail & housing in a very walkable format. Our other retail districts — Stadium/Maple, Plymouth Rd, Washtenaw — use the bleak strip mall format where walking isn't enjoyable & can even be dangerous when people have to cross 5 lanes. His objections make no sense. 060
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 17/04/2026If they didn't send postcards the public engagement doesn't count. Pause the pausing of the dismantling! DM me if you'd like a lawn sign. 030
Reposted by eric i🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you. 13352162910
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026It goes both ways. You talk about your love for 1,000 sq ft single family houses w/ yards. Wonderful! Others would love to live in a high rise or triplex. There is room for all of it, but today too much of Ann Arbor prohibits anything other than single-family houses, so many don't feel represented. 100
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Just so I'm clear, you heard a commenter express some excitement and you understood that to mean someone could tear down your house without your permission? And this commenter spoke during Monday's City Council Meeting or a different meeting? 201
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 18/03/2026You seem to have heard along the way that something in the CLUP could force you out of your own home. Do you know where you heard that? 110
Reposted by eric iNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 20/02/2026It's pretty gratifying to see a local planning official take up this point and run with it! www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb... 2627
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Announcing you intend to start frivolous lawsuits may not be the best legal strategy. 110
Reposted by eric idamnarbor.bsky.social @damnarbor.bsky.social · 05/02/20266 months ago, voters in Ann Arbor decided turn the page on the Library Lot. Erich Z. shares an elegy for the Library Green Conservancy. The non-profit opposed the Props A and B and was found to have violated state campaign finance laws. www.damnarbor.com/2026/02/the-... #a2Councildamnarbor.comThe Library Green Elegy: Dark Money Group Fined For Ann Arbor Election InterferenceAnn Arbor voters passed a pair of special election ballot measures in August of 2025 that would hopefully put to rest: what should be done ... 5377
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Greg is right, SFH with back yards are not precluded by the CLUP. It makes more residential options possible but doesn't take any away. There is so much misinformation out there. Please remember who it is that's misleading you. 020
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026What mechanism is Woodbury using to prevent the city from fixing your street? 100
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I think both Copernican and non-Copernican locals united on the issue of freeway expansion, as both sides understood the concept of induced demand. 061
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Are you talking about the buildings as located in their actual proposal? Or are you talking about buildings that they've never proposed? 000
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I'd be happy to redo the calculation with better measures, but it won't change things much. You have a next door house plus trees to your west that have much greater impact than a building 400' away. 020
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I estimate: your solar panels are 15' above the ground, the distance from the west side of your house to the 7 story building is 400', and a 7 story building is 80' high. The elevation above horizontal from your solar panels the lip of the 7 story roof would be 9.2°. If any impact it'd be minimal. 240
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Aren't the 7-story buildings in the interior of their owned property, so they would not, in fact, abut the back yards of any single family houses in the surrounding neighborhoods? 250
Reposted by eric iTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome. 85120782472
Reposted by eric iAdam Goodman @akgood.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Sounds incredibly familiar, #a2council 0152
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Back then developers were ethical and made sure they lost money on every home they sold. 120
Reposted by eric iZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11/10/2025UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward. 391214986116
Reposted by eric idamnarbor.bsky.social @damnarbor.bsky.social · 02/10/20252025 is on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst year for pedestrian crashes. We talk with @crashesinannarbor.bsky.social's Peter Houk who complied these data. #a2Council www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/2025...damnarbor.com2025 on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst for pedestrian crashes: an interview with Crashes in Ann Arbor's Peter HoukSerious and fatal pedestrian crashes by year from Crashes in Ann Arbor . 2025 data is year to date. Ann Arbor has an ambitious Vision Zero ... 5248
Reposted by eric iMolly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Great to see Michigan’s Dana Nessel on this list. 0144
Reposted by eric iMolly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 27/09/2025This is what privacy advocates have been warning about for a long time. Locally, despite attempts at a ban Ann Arbor has a facial recognition policy that’s basically “yup, we use facial recognition.” Ditto drones. Countywide, there has been public pushback against ALPRs it’s not settled. #a2council 3246
Reposted by eric iMolly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 27/09/2025The DSCC’s pick for MI senate is Haley “Endorsed non-Democrat Michael Bloomberg for President” Stevens. Vote McMorrow! 0136
Reposted by eric i404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2025NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...404media.coWe’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps. 181770558
Reposted by eric ijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2025genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so. 21078471185
Reposted by eric ijamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2025donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...washingtonpost.comNational park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scarsThe Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.” 15754391861
Reposted by eric iSE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Someone should post this to the Ann Arbor Reddit. I’ve seen so many posts claiming that Dunbar Towers will be bad actually bc people who are homeless are all criminals and drug users who are unhoused because they are bad people. #a2council 0174
Reposted by eric iMolly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 03/09/2025As universities are pushing students to use generative AI for all kinds of things, even going so far as to call it an “ethical responsibility,” I hope this will be a resource for people who supervise student workers and need to gently push back. 23914
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 01/08/2025World there be a ”student row“ comprised of minimally maintained houses owned by cheap landlords who maximally raise rents? 230
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Why'd you have to go and bring up the four red dots!? We never ever mention the red dots. 010
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Buy a >$500K <1,000 sq ft condo in another city for renting, investment, or weekends and then hire a lawyer to undermine their elections. Is that what decent folk are doing these days? 020
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Voting YES on A and B to solve two important Ann Arbor issues — paying for a new library without raising taxes *and* finally getting a well-managed outdoor plaza — and to help address another — more affordable housing. 091
Reposted by eric iJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 10/07/2025I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trumpballsandstrikes.orgKetanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme CourtThe task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public. 12886892396
Reposted by eric iDaniel Adams @danieladams.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Library Green supporters attacking A/B as lacking in “guarantees” is an awkward pivot for a group of ppl defending a project that has no $ and no plan, and who support an org whose former pres used to get high on camera during the official mtgs that #a2council set up to plan said project. 1262
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Look, it’s not complicated. If we need more housing now we should have built it 100 years ago. 070
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 28/06/2025If Library Director Neiburger wasn't so nice & more willing to exercise raw political power, he'd move this to July & leverage used VHS tapes to flip some of the 70+ crowd, many of whom are now fighting tooth & nail against the most amazing possible new downtown library that won't need new taxes. 010
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Nevertheless, she persists. And I count myself among the many who are grateful. 021
eric i @ivancich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Great explainer for what a Comp Plan is (and what it is not). www.tiktok.com/t/ZTj3fJtmo/tiktok.comMy city is in the midst of the first major comprehensive planning overhaul in decades. The City Council agreed unanimously that this plan needs to call for the addition of housing across Ann Arbor — i...TikTok video by Neighborhood Institute 020
Reposted by eric iDonnell Wyche @donnell.bsky.social · 23/06/2025The Ann Arbor chapter of Neighbors for More Neighbors just updated their site—it’s beautiful and full of great info on the Comprehensive Land Use Plan, how to get involved, and why making room for more neighbors matters. #a2council Check it out: www.moreneighborsa2.orgmoreneighborsa2.orgHome | Neighbors for More Neighbors A2 04718
Reposted by eric iNick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025This is incredibly beautiful storytelling. 13972633492
