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24Q4 Winter solstice

Updates this season

• Traveled to Nicaragua
• Did quite a bit of rock climbing
• DJed consistently every month
• CommunityScale turned 1 year old
• Launched more Github page dashboards for clients
• Hired two part time staff
• Complete drafts of both Lynn and Everett zoning documents
• Bought a piece of art from Joe Banda via Blue Triangle Gallery
• Hiking most Saturdays consistently

24Q3 Fall equinox

Happy Fall equinox, here is what I’ve been up to last season

• We had a really busy and fun quarter at CommunityScale wrapping up existing projects
• Published the open source dashboards for planning projects
• Got a used espresso maker from a friend
• Watched a lot of Olympics
• Sailed around Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound
• Biked to the Cape Cod National Seashore via the Ptown ferry with friends and family
• Hosted four sets of bicycle tourists
• DJed a few times, including a new brewery
• Built a dolly for a second hand Laser sailboat for the beach
• Turned forty and had a big party (turning forty also came with a string of small but annoying injuries, time to start being more careful)

24Q2 Summer solstice

• CommunityScale
• City & County of Honolulu Housing Plan
• Launching a Housing Plan for the City of Greenfield
• Climate tech and zoning: you want to do what!? Where!?
• Launching the Melrose Rezoning Project
• Launching a Housing Production Plan for the Town of Lancaster
• Started an open source dashboard approach
• DJ at Porchfest and Portico Brewing, started playing with Ableton
• Found a new frisbee summer league team with cool team mates and kids on the sideline, also played a goaltimate league
• Saw the total eclipse in Burlington, VT
• Three different cabins and hiking in NH

24Q1 Spring equinox

• CommunityScale is going very well, we have a backlog of great projects to work on with great clients.
• Zoning is becoming a bigger part of my work, with complete rezoning projects ongoing in Lynn, Everett, and Melrose.
• I went out on little adventures most Saturdays with the family, including walks in Lynn, Gloucester, Winchester, and Concord.
• I got to do some winter surfing on the Cape (5/4 wetsuit with gloves and booties) and some skiing up north.
• I've been DJing monthly at Portico Brewing in Somerville with some friends.

23Q4 Winter solstice

• Quit Stantec and created CommunityScale with two colleagues, including bunch of announcements, below
• Malden adopts MBTA Communities Zoning
• Housing Needs Assessment for Harrison County, Kentucky
• Which places have the best cost burden performance?
• General Code and CommunityScale sign a partnership agreement
• Having an impact on Massachusetts Housing Appeals Committee decisions as a witness
• How CommunityScale forecasts households by income group
• A new way to conduct and share housing needs assessments
• CommunityScale under contract to manage Everett’s rezoning
• Win for affordable housing in court supported by our analysis
• Managed to surf a few times at Nahant and Devereux

23Q3 Fall equinox

• Got social on Mastodon
• Some travel
• More business coming in for housing and zoning
• Wrapped up the NKADD housing analysis project

2023 Summer solstice

• Blog article about solar
• DJ’ed Porchfest
• Malden public meeting
• Pushing hard on housing analysis

2023 Spring equinox

• Installed solar on our roof
• First adoption hearing for El Paso Downtown + Uptown Master plan
• Started a new project for the New Rochelle Climate Vulnerability Assessment
• Making progress with housing analyis using big data

2022 Winter solstice

• Starting a hand-coded RSS as a kind of changelog for this static website.
• Logged off Twitter (at least until its managed better), still looking for a replacement, or accepting that not every thought has to be microblogged, and that it was always a distraction? Anyway a season for change. I like the idea of ActivityPub but am not convinced that any of the Mastodon instances that I've seen will actually be up and running in 20 years, whereas this static HTML could be around for quite a while. I also pulled my Twitter archive into HTML, including forking this Twitter Parser to reverse the results and put it all in one file.
• Forked Jeff Kauffman’s Apartment Prices to analyze some other areas.
• Getting more serious about this website thing. Moved nels.city from GitHub Pages because its a public repo to a private repo and Cloudflare pages. So far so good. Allows me to keep working files on here without it being as exposed.
• Started archiving fun projects at wetland.io