towards transit-oriented development
A primary focus of Home in Tacoma has been to
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Chris Karnes
Chris Karnes is a Senior Software Engineer at Sound Transit. He serves on the Tacoma Planning Commission. Driven by a desire to know how the world works. Physics, mathematics, and R-Stats.
Mapping Transit (In)Equity in the Puget Sound
...the quality of transit service is dependent upon on sales tax revenue, which is reflective of an area's economy, tax rates, and past decisions of lawmakers who have chosen one form of urban development over another, [making] transit service prone to geographic disparity.
Addressing transit inequity in Tacoma
The most frequent bus route in Tacoma on weekdays, Route 1 - 6th Ave - Pacific Ave, will operate once every half hour on weekdays, due to a lack of bus operators. Here I present a concept plan to address the issue.
Climate and Planning
The debate on the existence of human-driven climate change is over. For the last two centuries humans have been burning solid, liquid, and gaseous fossil fuels in increasing amounts, which has been gradually changing the composition of the atmosphere and our oceans.
The Generational Disconnect in Housing
Based on written and oral testimony about the Home in
on transit and housing
For Tacoma to continue to be a welcoming city to people who make less than the regional median income, we must plan to build more housing in such a way that people will be able to afford it, regardless of their income level or family size.
trees versus views
Does a tree growing nearby "damage" a home's value by obstructing a view? Would regulating that "damage" constitute a well-defined public purpose?
one man data band
In my nearly 15 years of working with data I have had one tool that has been there to support me like no other - the R programming language along with the RStudio IDE.