As expected, WTP4 passed on a 4-3 vote. Cole, Leffingwell, Martinez, and Shade voted yea. Morrison, Spelman, and Riley voted nay. It was a very civil and interesting discussion that mostly focused on risk management. Concilmembers Spelman and Shade delivered the most substantive remarks for each side.
Councilmember Spelman narrated …
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Big City Council vote on WTP4 this Thursday. Here is my previous post from the WTP4 forum. The post highlights outstanding issues on both sides of the argument.
InFact Daily says that Shade is the going to be the swing vote and she is voting in the affirmative for the …
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There were hundreds of people at Palmer Center's freezing Exhibit Hall No.2 on Thursday night, all waiting for a bigtime policy rumble between proponents and opponents of WTP4's existing development schedule.
Let's look at the highlights...
Demand Projection
Stephen Coonan of Alan Plummer Associates and the author of the …
[MORE]Over at his newish blog, Jonathan Law politely points out that WTP4 opponents, conservationists and I are sort of full of it. He writes:
[MORE]Unfortunately, opponents of this plan have chosen a convenient sticking point – the statistical methods employed – as the basis of their objections. These objections shouldn’t be …
Austin Contrarian with how discussions of projections and "regression" seemed to be unfolding.
As I anticipated, the demand modeling uses linear regression of one independent variable: population. However, to my surprise, the r-squared is high. For example, the sole population independent variable explains about 75% of the variation in peak …
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