BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Quote-first Misdirection, and Framing Effect, with Overconfidence Bias as the most egregious example at 27.6% saturation with 50 hits. Analysis detected 352 faulty-reasoning hits from 181 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 35.9% and a BS Rank of 32% (17,569 of 25,563 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 68.70% of the article peer group.
Forget the birds and other environmental impacts, are taller buildings messing with lunar cycles?
On this week’s show, our hosts explain how a proposed bill would stop building height from being treated as a significant environmental impact under state law.
State Sen.
Akilah Weber Pierson spoke about SB 958 at a committee hearing in June and explained how environmental laws have sometimes been used to slow housing projects.
She cited Midway Rising and litigation that has stood in the project’s way.
“Despite years of analysis and multiple EIRs, the most recent ruling from the California’s fourth district court of appeal determined that environmental review when related to building height needed to include aspects that were not typically analyzed, including impacts on airflow, atmospheric conditions, lunar cycles, and wildlife attraction,” she said.
Lunar cycles?
Co-host Scott Lewis explains what’s at stake and why we’re going to keep talking about SB 958.
Also on the show: The state is moving forward with a mesh barrier to deter suicides on the Coronado Bridge.
They also plan to install AI cameras.
Analysis
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