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Jeff Baker

@jwbee.bsky.social

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Notorious GIS reply guy YIMBY I will come to your hearing, Berkeley politician Vuvuzela owner Father @jeffinatorator on certain bird sites

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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 3h

Duplex sale for @hyperlexic.bsky.social

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 9h

Added some reference material at the top to show what normal compliance looks like.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 9h

1988 MLK has never really registered. Their junk has just said "vacant" for 15 years.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 9h

I updated my analysis of which large apartment buildings in Berkeley don't seem to comply with their duties to register new tenancies. Notable among these are 2020 Kittredge and 1988 MLK, the Trader Joes building. observablehq.com/@jwb/vacancy...

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 11h

I provided a report of non-reporting buildings to the Rent Board in 2025, with supporting evidence (like this, for 2020 Kittredge). I can do it again I guess.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 11h

At what point will you start going after 2020 kittredge for not updating their registration for 3 years? Or the other large buildings that obviously haven't updated their registration in ages?

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 13h

Lydia Kou jump scare

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 13h

lmao

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 14h

I like the feature on Windy that lets you compare model outputs.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Because it was all built before that.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I also updated the map of tax productivity of land using 2026 tax bills. Note the non-linear color scale.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

General fun revenues would be exactly proportional to net assessed value, right? It's slightly different but the narrative is basically the same.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Updated this chart for 2026: property taxes paid by year parcel developed in Berkeley, California. Buildings from this decade pay more taxes than everything Berkeley built in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s combined. Note: Tax data is current but building data ends in 2025.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Let them cook.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Based. Tear up every parking lot.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

LOL update

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Yeah as I understand it the problem is the edges of the grid, like this stuff

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It is dead calm everywhere.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

PG&E turned off everything they threatened to turn off, except Berkeley.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If I just press the Home button for 2-3 seconds I evetually get this

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Berkeley single-family-home tax summary updated for 2026-2027 tax year. The median bill is $13,485, little-changed from last year. The average bill is down to $15,665. 5% of bills are under $5k, and 5% are over $33k. This year, only 1 bill is over $100k. Color gives count in that dollar range.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Here is the most-taxed house in Berkeley, the second mansion of infamous non-profit executives Edward and Marsha Dawson, who together take home over $250k per month in don't-call-this-profit. Luckily for the city they haven't tried to shelter this from property taxes (yet).

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This individual Doordash guy has 100 unpaid parking tickets, mostly for parking in the red bus-only lane on Durant in Berkeley. Incredible stuff. It really proves that there is no amount of scofflaw behavior that can result in actual consequences for car drivers.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I have determined by careful comparison that PCC No. 1078 is painted "pale sage" or thereabouts.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There are places were it is.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We have reached the "beenz dot com" stage of South Park VC Bubble 4.0.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Multiple candidates for Berkeley City Council are out here this morning collaborating on and boosting this Instagram post that describes people as "zionazis". The post has a soundtrack by Kneecap, Irish band best known for calling for UK politicians to be killed. Vote for someone else, please.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Amusing myself with this map of Berkeley colored by year built. Continuous on the left, arbitrarily categorized on the right.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Visual version everything from 2020-2025.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah there are loads of that type near campus and sometimes the rooms are double or quadruple occupied as well. But in this case it's not drawn that way. A spectacular example of the genre: 2128 Oxford (proposed) 5bd and 7bd units on floors 25 and 26, with interior stairs.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah I think the market has spoken on this one. At least for the time being, this is good enough for some. $8450/mo for 5bd/2ba

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh yeah hrmm.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Runner-up: 2650 Telegraph.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What Berkeley building completed in 2025* is the most taxed? This beauty across the street from campus, worth a suspiciously round $26,500,000. * 2025 because only last year's buildings are fully taxed in the 2026-27 cycle based on January 1, 2026 assessments.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Look at these state pre-emption rules that West Virginia installed for data center builders. If they fill out a form, they are automatically immune from all local regulations within 14 days. Bananas.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Those weirdos at the office of the tax collector implemented a bunch of obnoxious anti-scraping tech to their property tax bill site, so, for the first time ever, I had to automate this with the chrome testing API. What a drag.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

BART somehow shattered its post-pandemic ridership record yesterday, and I can't even think of a particular reason. Warriors preseason game?

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The slopulism in question was (screenshotted it first because I knew with high certainty they'd block)

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Did it yesterday in fact.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One of my invaluable followers suggested these colors instead.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Playing with new ways to visualize my Berkeley rent data. What this is trying to say is that in summer 2026, the 33 apartments that had previously been leased in summer 2021 typically rented for 14% less. I started collecting this in 2022, that's why it is sparse on the right.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

major holiday tomorrow

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The way I read the record across their 4 different building permit files is that the demo permit was not ripe until they got this "phase 1" permit sorted, and they changed the details several times with many back and forth rounds. That unblocked the demo process.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Usually these things have several.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The ultra NIMBYs are giving to Aidan Hill's campaign.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The number of parameters that Portland TriMet's trip planner is willing to optimize is pretty amazing.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Big same.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lyft Bike activity by station, September 2026. (Whoops, the map I posted a few minutes ago, and then deleted, was drawn from August data)

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Pretty clear what's driving this.