"What began as a modest workplace amenity for public servants has metastasized into a taxpayer-funded citadel of privilege."
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October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"What began as a modest workplace amenity for public servants has metastasized into a taxpayer-funded citadel of privilege."
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the office free use amenity always carries condoms 🙂↕️
January 10, 2026 at 7:20 AM
the office free use amenity always carries condoms 🙂↕️
Everyone hates user fees and then wonders why every public amenity sucks ass.
September 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Everyone hates user fees and then wonders why every public amenity sucks ass.
The Airbnb amenity you didn’t know you needed 😉
August 27, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The Airbnb amenity you didn’t know you needed 😉
Best amenity EVER 😍
December 26, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Best amenity EVER 😍
Waiting room amenity
January 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Waiting room amenity
Why are we literally firing national park rangers?! The National Park Service is an agency and national amenity with one of the highest approval ratings!
February 16, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Why are we literally firing national park rangers?! The National Park Service is an agency and national amenity with one of the highest approval ratings!
show amenity kit
February 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
show amenity kit
if you agree having a nearby grocery store is an essential amenity, state intervention (either heavy handed regulation or direct provision) are the only ways to guarantee access to one in poor and especially in rural areas
June 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
if you agree having a nearby grocery store is an essential amenity, state intervention (either heavy handed regulation or direct provision) are the only ways to guarantee access to one in poor and especially in rural areas
Wheelchair access should not be considered “an amenity.”
Accessibility should be as standard as a fire detector or front door.
Accessibility should be as standard as a fire detector or front door.
May 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Wheelchair access should not be considered “an amenity.”
Accessibility should be as standard as a fire detector or front door.
Accessibility should be as standard as a fire detector or front door.
The “Homevoter” thesis that posits NIMBYism is motivated by people maximizing home values is mostly wrong imo.
The primary motivator is amenity hoarding. The vesting metaphor is apt. They believe that the zoning is an amenity they are paying for. It’s an extension of their perceived property rights
The primary motivator is amenity hoarding. The vesting metaphor is apt. They believe that the zoning is an amenity they are paying for. It’s an extension of their perceived property rights
I was struck by this homeowner advocate's stance that buying a house in a single-family-home neighborhood means you should have a kind of "vesting" in that neighborhood remaining single-family — the same as a developer with zoning for their projects subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
![Just as the city provides certainty for developers who know what zoning rules allow when they plan projects and for tenants in rent-stabilized apartments, the same should be true for homeowners, said Maria Pavlou Kalban, vice president of the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association.
“I think [the principle] also applies to homeowners that buy into a neighborhood and assume that's what they bought into,” Pavlou Kalban said.
“Now, all of a sudden, that's changed,” she said, referring to the fallout from SB 79.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kf7wovquyycgxbezaxwnvn72/bafkreiczxpyha43wfgqyqa2t5vrtahvhr5h37klovdhy5pe3yftnbwgjim)
March 17, 2026 at 7:57 PM
The “Homevoter” thesis that posits NIMBYism is motivated by people maximizing home values is mostly wrong imo.
The primary motivator is amenity hoarding. The vesting metaphor is apt. They believe that the zoning is an amenity they are paying for. It’s an extension of their perceived property rights
The primary motivator is amenity hoarding. The vesting metaphor is apt. They believe that the zoning is an amenity they are paying for. It’s an extension of their perceived property rights
New addition to the franchise just dropped
January 4, 2026 at 2:42 PM
New addition to the franchise just dropped
I don’t think the monkeys are an amenity.
September 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I don’t think the monkeys are an amenity.
The hedgehog watering hole is a 24/7 multi-species amenity. As demonstrated by this Great Tit.
December 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The hedgehog watering hole is a 24/7 multi-species amenity. As demonstrated by this Great Tit.
curling sheet as apartment complex amenity…. Minnesota!
February 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
curling sheet as apartment complex amenity…. Minnesota!
This is what happens when "bike parking" is just a checkbox item for developers, not a real amenity.
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
This is what happens when "bike parking" is just a checkbox item for developers, not a real amenity.
POV: You turned your stadium car park into a dense, amenity-rich neighborhood.
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
POV: You turned your stadium car park into a dense, amenity-rich neighborhood.
airport bathroom amenity
July 15, 2026 at 12:52 AM
airport bathroom amenity
Consistent street trash cans are such an underrated amenity
March 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Consistent street trash cans are such an underrated amenity
As global warming advances, shade will go from a preference to an amenity to a necessity
Anglosphere planners go to great lengths to prevent shadows. This is absurd to me, a moderately observant human who occasionally goes outside and sees that people like being in the shade.
April 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
As global warming advances, shade will go from a preference to an amenity to a necessity
In Paris, in London, in New York and in Montreal, bike shares have become more than an amenity. It has become a quiet engine of transformation.
momentummag.com/the-worlds-b...
momentummag.com/the-worlds-b...
March 26, 2026 at 12:28 PM
In Paris, in London, in New York and in Montreal, bike shares have become more than an amenity. It has become a quiet engine of transformation.
momentummag.com/the-worlds-b...
momentummag.com/the-worlds-b...
The world needs more benches (and toilets, and bins! And general provision of visible public amenity as a principle.)
"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it."
NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:
NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:
The Disappearance of the Public Bench
Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.
placesjournal.org
April 23, 2026 at 9:34 AM
The world needs more benches (and toilets, and bins! And general provision of visible public amenity as a principle.)
It's lame how US developers will build discrete new neighborhoods like this without a little town center. I think to most people, a little hub with a coffee shop, barber shop, post office, and/or convenience store would be a real amenity.
December 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
It's lame how US developers will build discrete new neighborhoods like this without a little town center. I think to most people, a little hub with a coffee shop, barber shop, post office, and/or convenience store would be a real amenity.
That classic arcade amenity: pet spa
October 3, 2026 at 11:38 PM
That classic arcade amenity: pet spa
Absolute disgrace to call this site “amenity rich”
June 24, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Absolute disgrace to call this site “amenity rich”