Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️ (@SukritGanesh) / X

Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️

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Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️

@SukritGanesh

Interested in tech, AI, cycling, piano, DIY, aviation, renewable energy, urban planning. Private pilot. YIMBY. Neoliberal. Anti-populist 🚲🚅🥑🔰☢🎹🛩️🇺🇦 🇮🇷

SF Bay Area

Joined November 2021

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Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️
@SukritGanesh
Mar 12
A long overdue flight school update: after 22 months, 100+ flight hours, countless takeoffs and landings, and a whole lot of studying, I passed my checkride on the first try. I am officially a private pilot. The sky’s really the limit now!
Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️
@SukritGanesh
Jun 4, 2025
Lesson 44: First solo cross-country flight! Flew from KRHV -> KKIC (King City) -> KLSN (Los Banos) -> KRHV. Nearly 3 hours in the air and 200 miles traveled. Spent hours planning it. Definitely the most exhilarating flight so far - and the views didn’t disappoint!
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@SukritGanesh
May 14, 2024
Why on earth would a grocery store fight against new housing near them? Isn't having more customers living nearby a good thing?
Liam Dillon
@dillonliam
May 14, 2024
High-end supermarket Erewhon suing under California’s environmental laws to stop a neighboring 520-unit apartment complex in Los Angeles latimes.com/business/story…
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@SukritGanesh
Dec 28, 2024
California cities are beyond broken. A developer proposed a high-rise on a vacant lot in San Jose. Though it isn't located in a residential neighbourhood, locals are furious. But most egregiously, the city only plans to hold meetings on this project in 2026 - 2 years from now!!!
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Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️
@SukritGanesh
Apr 1, 2025
BREAKING NEWS: After years of deliberation, Santa Clara has decided to eliminate most zoning restrictions across the city, save for the historic downtown district. Updated building codes and 60-day permitting also reported. Intention is to grow the city to a million people.
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Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️
@SukritGanesh
Jan 25, 2025
Can someone explain the logic behind rust belt towns opposing new development? Like, shouldn’t they strongly support every single new apartment complex, office tower, or factory? Otherwise their tax base will continue to shrink and jobs & people will continue to move elsewhere.
Michael McLean
@cornoisseur
Jan 24, 2025
Alderman Hopkins has announced his decision to block a proposed development that would have brought 500 new apartments and a grocery store to Old Town Chicago. The tower was projected to bring in $2.5 million per year of property taxes for the City of Chicago. It would have 400
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Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️
@SukritGanesh
Jan 9, 2025
Much of San Francisco was completely rebuilt - buildings and infrastructure - just 5 to 6 years after the 1906 earthquake and fire completely devastated vast swaths of the city. In 2024, the planning process for a single large apartment complex or water main can take as long.
Wong Güey 那个王
@wong_guey
Jan 9, 2025
How long is it going to take to get LADBS to permit, inspect and rebuild thousands and thousands of homes?
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Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️
@SukritGanesh
Aug 20, 2025
Can someone tell me what are the “unintended consequences” for legalizing 6 story buildings near transit stops? I’d love to know …
Mayor Karen Bass
@MayorOfLA
Aug 20, 2025
Today I signed a City Council resolution opposing SB79 unless it is amended to exempt cities with a state-approved and compliant Housing Element. While I support the intent to accelerate housing development statewide, as written, this bill risks unintended consequences for LA.
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@SukritGanesh
Oct 16, 2024
Your daily reminder that there’s a 3-mile long stretch of beachfront condos selling for under $400k located just 5 miles from one of the best job markets in the US. Chicago remains unparalleled for its combination of good jobs, mass transit, and affordable housing.
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Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️
@SukritGanesh
Feb 11, 2025
Cambridge finally did it. I’ve been hoping for 6 stories citywide with no strings attached ever since I got interested in urban planning. This should be a template for the nation - 6 stories, unlimited FAR & density, no setbacks. The housing crisis would be over in a jiffy.
Jonathan Berk
@berkie1
Feb 11, 2025
🚨After eliminating parking requirements last year, Cambridge, Massachusetts has passed one of the more ambitious rezoning efforts in America tonight allowing 6-stories citywide by an 8-1 vote. Prior to this update, the City estimated only 350 new units would be built by 2040.
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@SukritGanesh
May 18, 2025
New NIMBY tactic: critisize new apartments for "bad architecture" but remain silent when it comes to strip malls, cookie cutter homes, and the other unremarkable architecture that makes up most American cities. Why is only multifamily housing held to such a high standard?
Domestic Terrorist 🐺
@domestic415
May 17, 2025
My favorite thing about the new condos in lower Haight is their potentially timeless artistic and aesthetic value.
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Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️
@SukritGanesh
Jul 3, 2024
Marin County makes no sense. It's a sprawling car-dependent suburb filled with old, large, energy-inefficient homes built on forests or wetlands. Yet, its politicians claim to be "environmentalists" and oppose new apartments to "protect the environment" ...
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@SukritGanesh
Aug 6, 2025
Can someone explain why massive high rise developments are pencilling in Miami but not the Bay Area? Florida Live Local developments require 40% BMR housing, & Miami rents are way lower than CA. Imagine if we built dozens of these strip malls across the Bay Area.
Floridian Development
@FloridianDev
Aug 4, 2025
🧵Hue Hub Gets Approval - Miami-Dade HueHub, a nearly $1 billion live local act development, has just gained approval in Miami-Dade. Plans call for 7 towers, 35 floors/350 FT each. There will be 4,032 units, 20,742 SF of retail, 14,480 SF of office space, & 5,037 parking spaces
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Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️
@SukritGanesh
Aug 23, 2025
In just a few months, Texas almost unanimously passed a bill to legalize single staircase buildings. Meanwhile, California merely passed a bill to STUDY single staircase buildings (AB 835), after facing massive BIPARTISAN opposition. Do better, California.
YIMBYLAND
@YIMBYLAND
May 27, 2025
TEXAS PASSES 6-STORY SINGLE-STAIR BILL! 🤠 - Legalizes 6-stories, 4-units/floor, in TX state building code - Cities that adopt standard amendments to state building code would by-default legalize 6-story single-stair apartments - Paves way for streamlined adoption by cities
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Sukrit Ganesh 🇺🇸 🥑 🚲🛩️
@SukritGanesh
Jul 22, 2025
Not a single apartment complex broke ground in San Jose in 2024. Then the city began cutting impact fees & "inclusionary zoning" requirements on a per-project basis. Literally weeks after this happened to a project near the light rail, construction began. It's not rocket science!
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