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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 5h

Good thing we cut back on frequency. The green line trains are having to turn away people at the downtown platforms headed to the state fair.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 22h

We need a shout out for State Senator @nathanfortexas.bsky.social running for Corrupt Ken's old AG job, who sponsored it in the senate. We are now exploring putting some iteration of the opt-in bill to city council in Dallas.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 22h

TX26 election synopsys: Suburbs raging b/c their car-dependent lifestyle costs another $1.50/gallon; the third rail of Texas politics, public schools is under direct and active threat, which is generally the number one employer in rural counties. The cities have always been under atack.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 23h

The governor proposing to cut all property taxes for public school funding is some crazy work. Those property taxes are what they are because he refuses to fully fund public education. Giving him more control over local public school education would fully kill public schools which was/is his goal.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The beginning of Downtown Vital Signs blog series now up: downtownvitalsigns.city/blog/

downtownvitalsigns.city

Blog - Downtown Vital Sings

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

so generic state DOT talking points then

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now if you said "hey the Great Lakes make a tremendous long term real estate play given climate change, well then that is a different story but who has multi-decade patience on returns?

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I might as well follow this up with "which downtowns is parking free I bet theyre great."

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Where people are dying or leaving is a more complex question than "housing seems affordable!"

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the 1950s the trucking industry was skeptical of the plan to bring highways directly into and through cities mixing local and interstate traffic.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Our built infrastructure robs kids of their freedom of independent mobility. Streets are dominated by oversized vehicles, piloted by aggressive and distracted drivers where one mistake can turn lethal. We sacrificed child development to subsidize the auto industry.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Posting without comment. Feel free to fill in the blank.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

LOL oh yeah what was that specific project? Tell me like i dont already know.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Downtown WalkScore vs Walk ModeShare for downtown residents:

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is NIMBY-fied development. Fine fine you get density on commercial corridors, but it's also remarkable this was accomplished at all.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Downtown Job Density and Average Monthly Parking Costs:

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I highly doubt this development needs all of this parking and I hope whatever ownership structure it has allows infill townhomes on the surface lot

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I used to want to do a blog series that would take one line from The Wire for each blog post and delve into the layers and depth of it.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As somebody working on real estate deals in MX there is so much more optimism there right now and a very educated business class behind it. This is all noise and paranoia.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Will all the councilmembers and their planning commissioners support the upzonings and code rewrites necessary to grow our tax base or do we all want to walk into the abyss hand in hand?

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Doooooo we think that malls just died? Bc that would be a nostalgia induced fever dream

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

How does Austin exist without connecting segments? No inner loop? They are actually better off for it. All you need are approaches and beltways.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Houston, have me come talk about highways in and around your downtown.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's 300 acres of low assessed value property. If all of those properties could be repositioned/developed to achieve the downtown average assessment, that's 5x increase in value and $5 billion extra on the Houston property tax rolls.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

any abundance agenda includes a revived nuclear program IMO if and only if it replaces fossil fuels

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This honestly feels like a pretty good hybridized solution and is not a referendum on the past mayors, but the future ones running for the office now have a good reason to seek the office. www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

dallasnews.com

Exclusive: Former Dallas mayors seek more power for mayor

Former Dallas mayors seek more power for mayor. The next mayor would hire the city manager and city attorney, while developing the budget.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's a minimum of $5 billion in private property wealth and tax base reduced via proximity to the inner highway loop, which is on top of the direct costs of the highway right-of-way in the Atlas of Inner City Highway Impacts:

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Very clear pattern of symmetrical devaluation by proximity to highways in downtown Houston:

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If highways through the city are "good" and "needed," why aren't there any through the wealthy white part of Charlotte?

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If highways through the city are "good" and "needed," why aren't there any through the wealthy white part of Charlotte?

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Triplets of Belleville was not cruel and over the top enough about the US.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have not seen any confirmation of this. But tolls are 1) the best way to manage congestion on an existing network and 2) needed to maintain a system where taxes and other user fees do not cover full O&M. The problem has been Tx uses tolls for continual system expansion.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Interesting how these two little two-story mixed-use buildings are assessed at $55M/acre, higher than everything else in the area but one high-rise.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Properties in downtown assessed at under $10/acre:

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Any sane federal transportation and infrastructure going forward should have a very large Reconnecting Communities budget with a high ROI standard to discouragethe political expedience of deck parks.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A poorly designed commuting sytem is one that puts everyone in cars, devalues land, and encourages sprawl/longer distance trips.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Should the Kennedy Center be torn down? Obviously not. But you know what should?

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For my compatriots in Fort Worth, we should not be against each other but for each other. The political battle is urban vs exurban and it is to be had over federal transpo resources at the regional governmental level.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Lancaster, PA has 640 operating storefronts in its downtown. San Antonio, 30x the size of the city in terms of population, has 843. Lancaster's downtown population is 3.5x that of San Antonio.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If downtown could achieve Uptown's average assessed value per acre, it would generate $477M annually in property taxes, $150M of which would go to the city of Dallas.

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Check out the downtown population density of little ol' Lancaster PA, a town of 58,000:

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Uptown Dallas, total assessed value: $12.025 Billion Downtown Dallas, $11.528B Per Acre: Uptown: $27.651M Downtown: $9.515M Tax exempt value: Uptown: $656M (5.46% of total) Downtown: $2.076B (18% of total)

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

let's get back to steel wheel baby

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patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is not the "innovation" we need.

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