@jacksonp42.bsky.social

@jacksonp42.bsky.social

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Urban Planner (by education, somewhat by employment). YIMBY. Humanist. Fan of science, nature, and science fiction. Unfortunately unable to look away from the train wreck that is American politics. Posted opinions my own unless otherwise indicated.

Nextdoor screenshot of C.S. responding to R.H. statement "Here in 1000 Oaks, slow growth is in our name & it's in our DNA" with "I really hate to see any high rise building go up in T.O. I was under the impression they were supposed to keep it to 2 stories. But that was years ago so maybe a change someplace. We do not want this area to turn into the valley!!!" followed by a comment from F.M. saying "Let them do what they want with their land" regarding the city's downtown project with housing up to seven stories.
Crowd gathering in City Council chambers for public comment on the Thousand Oaks Downtown Plan.
Google Maps mobile capture of Altadena aerial image after the Eaton Fire, showing destroyed properties across most of the community.
Image of Stop in large red letters followed by Placement of High Density Projects At The Mouth of Our Evacuation Route Before It Costs Us Our Lives, overlaid on an image of a very gray three to four story concrete building with tiny windows next to a street with a small car on it.
Screenshot of California Senate Housing Committee document showing the votes for items on the April 21st 2026 agenda, with SB 1361 highlighted showing the text stating Do pass as amended and refer to the committee on local government, followed by State Senators Arreguin, Cabaldon, Caballero, Cortese, Durazo (Author), Gonzalez, Grayson, Ochoa Bogh, and Padilla voting aye and Vice Chair Seyarto voting nay.
Selfie of a middle aged white guy with graying hair in a blue shirt, sunglasses, and a dark red Derby hat with a Civil War American Flag containing two concentric circles of stars and the words The Union Forever written above it taped to the front of the hat, holding a cardboard protest sign with No submission to kings, tyrants, abusers, abductors, assassins, Confederates, fascists, and Dominionist Armageddon mongers. No Pasaran! Written on it.
Star Citizen: a Hull C cargo spaceship rotating ludicrously fast on its axis while next to a space station.
An image showing Thousand Oaks housing statistics for 2021-2029, with 1 Extremely Low Income, 26 Low Income, and 313 Above Moderate Income units permitted so far, and 554 units proposed in all applications received.
Image of a screen at Ventura County Government Center showing the title Ventura Ranch Farmworker Housing Project Case Number PL23-0051, Item 7A.
Screenshot from phone with Google article Vallejo earthquake update, USGS confirms a preliminary magnitude 3.6 earthquake struck near Vallejo, with an obviously unrelated image of two people hugging amid rubble beneath it.
VC YIMBY booth at the Community Action Fair.
Draft Ventura County YIMBY handout page 1 listing advocacy accomplishments
View from behind an American flag at the No Kings protest at Los Robles Hospital, Thousand Oaks, California. Other protesters with flags and signs visible as traffic passes by on the street.
Google Earth screenshot of Warner Brothers Studios, Burbank, California with the Star's Hollow set location from Gilmore Girls circled.
Google Earth screenshot of UVU campus and a light rail and bus station located across the freeway from it.
Google Earth aerial image screenshot of the Utah Valley University campus building where Charlie Kirk's shooter jumped from the roof, the surrounding campus, and the nearby neighborhood.
Wood framing rising for Sanctuary Thousand Oaks, a 200 plus unit development preserving the historic 1920s Conejo School building in Newbury Park.
Screenshot of Google Earth map showing concept for communities to possibly voluntarily relocated priced-out households to, with text: Initiative to Voluntarily Relocated Qualified Families and Individuals. Blue states commonly fund purchase of vacant land and abandoned housing in cities in red Congressional districts. Purchased land should be within a half hour drive of passenger rail or transit station. Purchased land should be within a half hour drive of sustainable employment specific to relocated household skills and experience. Common fund should rehabilitate existing housing or build new housing on purchased properties for sale to relocated households. Household qualifications to relocate include, but are not limited to, households that are homeless or at risk of homelessness, no violent criminal history, no ongoing substance abuse, household members not at risk in new location.
Nextdoor screenshot of user J.A. from Newbury Park stating It's officially happened. Newbury Park is becoming L.A. slash SFV. The Oakwell 333 mixed use apartments and ground floor commercial use. Imagine what traffic will be like on Hillcrest and Rancho Conejo, with a worried emoji, followed by an image of equipment digging up ground in an empty lot next to a gas station.
Eastward view on Moorpark's High Street, looking toward several of the new small mixed use buildings of the development behind a row of mature pepper trees.
Picture of eight books being held by me above brick walkway at the Gamble House book sale.
Screenshot of California Office of Traffic Safety 2022 statistics for Ventura County, California, population 825,960 showing 4,991 total fatal and injury crashes in the year including 675 with alcohol involved, 44 with driver under 21 drinking, 334 with driver age 21 to 34 drinking, 285 motorcycles, 251 pedestrians, 31 pedestrians under 15, 28 pedestrians 65 and over, 253 on bicycles, and 32 with cyclists under 15.
Screenshot of Facebook post describing that Doctor Jonathan Caravello of California State University Channel Islands, last seen during anti ICE protest in Camarillo, is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, with an embedded screeshot of Caravello's detention record at MDC with register number 26676-506.
Thousand Oaks No Kings Protest at the intersection of Lynn and Hillcrest, with huge crowds of people carrying signs and flags surrounding the intersection while approaching traffic is heavily backed up in both directions.
Crowd demonstrating against the MAGA agenda in Thousand Oaks.
Google Earth screenshot of farms off of Las Posas Road in Ventura County near Oxnard and Camarillo, showing a similar treeline as what appears in the background of the ICE abduction video.
Google Earth screenshot of the Los Angeles Basin highlighting the 12 mile distance between the City of Paramount and Downtown Los Angeles.
Community Alert Simi Valley. ICE will be conducting targeted operations starting Saturday June 7th till next Sunday June 15th, day and night. Operations will be conducted in Ventura County, Santa Barbara County, and San Luis Obispo County. Please take pictures and video when possible - we need dates and times, and exact location of ICE sighting and when possible vehicle license plates and photos of agents. Report immediately to 805-870-8855 - 805 Immigrant Rapid Response Network. ICE has already been reported on Agnew Street harassing neighbors, on Cochran and Sycamore at the shopping centers, as well as by Aldi and Don Cucos on Cochran and Tapo within this past week.
Metro booth and bus surrounded by people on Glendale Avenue for the open streets event.
Google Earth screenshot of image dated November 2023 of Westlake Boulevard, northbound, facing towards Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks, California, with a sharrow on the right-most lane partly concealed by a Tesla Model S driving over it, then two additional vehicle lanes, then a combined vehicle-bike turn lane with a sharrow on it, then an additional two vehicle turning lanes.
Screenshot from abebooks.com shows Our Great Seal -The Symbols of Our Heritage and Our Destiny, a book by E. Raymond Capt, published by Artisan Publishers in 2007.
A gopher snake sprawled out in the shade of a bush.
Google Maps aerial image and street view image of the Rolling Pin Donuts parking lot crash site.
A book held partially off of a bookshelf entitled Agenda 21 by bestselling author Glenn Beck with Harriet Parker.
Clip of me tormenting my friend in the game Star Citizen by injecting his character with drugs and laughing as he grumbles "You crashed me!" and his character repeatedly twirls around out of control.
Ventura County Star newspaper article screenshot. A picture of an approved 4-5 story residential project with caption "A group of residents is considering suing Ventura after the City Council upheld the approval of a five-story housing development near Plaza Park."