Listening to this history of ACT UP and thinking about how developing plans, stats, reports, and recommendations outside the govt agencies is so important.
ACT UP volunteers and organizers created recommendations that were later put into official use for treating HIV.
It's being done in Seattle w/ the Solidarity Budget. Makes me think we need more of this type of organizing for safe streets & housing (if we don't have it already).
Adding onto this thought, creating alternative design guidelines could be a useful tool (or not, I'm not an expert!).
It feels like the default redesign is always done unless a lot of work by the community is done to change it. It doesn't make anything safer because the guidelines aren't safe & designed for cars.
️ @Poweredbylemonx@towns.gayThere are folks in the Share the Cities slack doing work around the Comp Plan! IDK why I forgot to mention this