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Some signs from April 9 2018 rally for allowing homeowners to add an auxiliary dwelling unit to their property in some of the residential zones of Bellingham where this is currently not allowed.
Several very compelling arguments given by speakers at the rally. Below is a letter I sent to city council favoring the idea.
Dear Bellingham City Council
Allowing auxiliary dwelling units (ADUs) is a good idea to help alleviate Bellingham's housing shortage. It also helps to bring income diversity to Bellingham's neighborhoods; rather than concentrating lower income people in certain areas and higher income people in other areas. Income diversity can knit society together more. Income diversity in neighborhoods can help to bring more trust and connection among our citizens.
It's also good for the environment to provide more places to live in the city; rather than people having to dwell in the county possibly facing longer commutes.
We do face the problem of population growth. That's a worldwide problem. Like quite a few cities and towns in this country, Bellingham is a popular place to live. Population growth comes from several sources including immigration to the US. There are some folks who would like to build a wall; especially on our country's southern border. I've also heard that idea expressed in another way; a wall across I-5 south of Bellingham to keep people from moving here. There's also the idea that a restrictive single family neighborhood can be a wall as well; especially when median home prices are starting to reach toward the half million dollar mark. I hear today's median price is around $380,000 and rapidly rising.
Walls can be draconian and impractical. Instead, it's up to us to do our part to accommodate people. Yes, I am one to support reducing world population growth, but in the meantime new people are a reality. We need to practice what we preach if we want to be a welcoming city and a place that also strives to reduce the carbon footprint. This versus pushing the growth into the county's rural areas.
I am also okay with the part of the proposal that I hear would wave some of the permitting and park impact fees for the small units. As a person who's transportation is by bicycle, I do appreciate park space, but I also realize the need for some compromise. This relates to the concept of taxes and fees being progressive. That can help to give smaller footprint units a slight break.
Thanks for your consideration.
Robert Ashworth.
See my impressions after city council meeting here.
Some street scenes taken in the fortified town.
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JOE WARDWELL
Hello America: 40 Hits from the 50 States
Hello America: 40 Hits from the 50 States takes inspiration from J.G. Ballard's novel, Hello America (1981). The book begins in a nearly abandoned United States 100 years after a late 20th-century energy crisis. An expedition from Europe discovers a self-elected leader in Las Vegas named Charles Manson, who declares to the book's protagonist: "Together, Wayne, we will make America great again!"
Wardwell merges this work of fiction with the experimental music group Negativland's controversial 1991 song, “The Letter U and the Numeral 2." In the single, the band loops a recording of Casey Kasem -- the famed radio host of "America's Top 40" -- exploding in a string of expletives while reading a story about the death of a family pet followed by an up-tempo song from the band U2. Negativland layers this with a sample of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."
These strangely interwoven stories form the backbone of Wardwell’s mural, which begins with a silhouette of bare winter trees in the Berkshires -- a dystopian landscape that references 19th-century landscape painters such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Church. Atop this is punk band Mission of Burma’s lyric (written by Roger Clark Miller), "Fame and fortune is a stupid game / Fame and fortune is the game I play," which then is further camouflaged by a layer of smaller screen-printed texts. These "40 hits" are culled from campaign slogans, progressive writings, ruminations on the end of the United States, the role of government, and various additional song lyrics. The words of Jello Biafra, Chuck D, Anne Sexton, Hunter S. Thompson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Noam Chomsky, Margaret Sanger, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Bill Clinton, E.E. Cummings, Barack Obama, Henry Rollins, Madonna, and Maya Angelou are included.
Hello America: 40 Hits from the 50 States speaks to the American dream in all its complexity and richness, with Wardwell calling upon the ghosts of history to help us make sense of it all.
LADY SOMERS : IMO 1154459
Built in 1929 by Cammell, Laird & Co , Birkenhead , UK(Yard No. 945) as LADY SOMERS for Canadian National Steamships Ltd., Montreal
GRT: 8194/ DWT: ??
Dimensions: Length (oa) 128.1metres x Beam 18.4 metres
Machinery: 2 Shafts driven by Steam Turbines
History
1929: LADY SOMERS (As built)
1940: Requisitioned by Admiralty as an Ocean Boarding Vessel
15 July 1941: Torpedoed and sunk by the Italian submarine Morosini in the North Atlantic
This week our church hosted a youth mission project called River of Life. A huge undertaking as we hosted over 150 youth from all over the state of Georgia so that they could go out and do home repairs for the elderly & one child who has terminal cancer in our area. They worked on 13 houses in all. The kids were divided up into teams - carpentry, roofing, landscaping, and painting. This is what happened: They put in sidewalks, painted houses, roofed, replaced rotting wood, landscaped, replaced doors, locks, & broken sinks, built a swing, some wheelchair ramps, decks, and new porches, they loved, learned, listened, shared, prayed, found out that maybe their lives aren't that bad after all, they made new friends, built confidence & pride, and learned that maybe there are some things more important than texting.
June, 2008
The Motley Pixel Lens Photo Repository Cluster of seeds waiting for a brisk puff of wind. taken at Zilker Botanical Gardens, Austin, TX
Some ruff early muck about stuff for Scroe. These are just little nuggets for the post mate, just working through quickee ideas for the proper ones. I'll whack everything in the post for you when im done. Cheers again bud, your Funkys were so fresh. Funky fresh even.
trees with snow in a forest , winter, mountain landscape watching out of a frozen river with some floating water
Some dazzling Autumn light at St Blazey on 1st Oct 2024.
A pristine 66154 waits for the RHTT circuit to commence.
Some last silhouettes of 7X09 S stock at Croxhall nature reserve, unfortunately had to go up to 2500 ISO with the sun set at 17.50. 20107/20901/20132/20142 tnt 7X09 15.54 Derby LL - Amersham. Wednesday 23rd October 2013
A view of some of the outside exhibits at Eden Camp,most of the aircraft are hollow replicas.We used to visit here often when we lived in Scarborough.
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Bik, Liesbeth., Jos Van der Pol. Catching Some Air: Library Drawings By Bik Van Der Pol. Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 2002.
See MCAD Library's catalog record for this book.
Some characters who may feature in a Brickfilm I may make at some point in the future. The two on the far left are versions or sorts of the same character, and I may mix and match parts; thoughts?
I think this will be a view I'll go back to in better weather!
Again pushed this through Topaz lens effects to get some detail in the foreground.