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M. Nolan Gray

My name is M. Nolan Gray, and this is really more of a comment than a question.

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When I was finishing my planning degree roughly a decade ago, I consumed hours of Dan Bell’s Dead Mall Series on YouTube while hunkered down in the GIS lab late into the night. This on-again, off-again preoccupation with dead malls was reki...

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    I'm the senior director of legislation and research for California YIMBY and the author of hit Broadway musical "Arbitrary Lines."

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