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Councilman Lee Kleinman

Senior Advisor, Masterplan · 1 appearance on the record.

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Kleinman served on the Dallas City Council representing District 11 from 2013 until 2021, where he chaired the Mobility Solutions, Infrastructure, and Sustainability Committee. After leaving office due to term limits, he joined Masterplan as a senior advisor guiding developers through municipal zoning and land-use entitlements in Texas.

9statements → 9claims → 6claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 3.89/5average certainty → 2.11/5average debate potential →

4 supported 1 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not yet assessed 2 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 8 assertions · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Councilman argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Kleinman: Dallas is converting multi-lane one-way streets to prioritize local access
“Historically, the city planning has focused our streets on what I say driving through, and now we're really focused on driving to. Which means that things like where we've had these big one way, three, four lane one way, so people can just all leave downtown a…”
Councilman Lee Kleinman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:55 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Kleinman: Dallas has no undeveloped land left and must grow vertically
“In Dallas, we're really bound by our suburbs. There's no way we can grow out. The only way we can grow is up. So for us to move forward economically, we've got to have more density. We have no more undeveloped land, especially north of downtown.”
Councilman Lee Kleinman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:03 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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63% certainty 4
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Everything Councilman Lee Kleinman said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Kleinman: Dallas is converting multi-lane one-way streets to prioritize local access
“Historically, the city planning has focused our streets on what I say driving through, and now we're really focused on driving to. Which means that things like where we've had these big one way, three, four lane one way, so people can just all leave downtown a…”
Councilman Lee Kleinman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:55 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing
Assertion Supported
Kleinman: Dallas operates dockless bike sharing completely unregulated
“So actually in Dallas, we're completely unregulated.”
Councilman Lee Kleinman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:29 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing
Assertion Supported
Kleinman: Dallas scaled to 20,000 bike-share bikes in four months
“What's happened in Dallas is we went from zero bike share to probably 15 to 20,000 bikes in what a matter of like four months.”
Councilman Lee Kleinman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:41 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2068
Kleinman: North Texas population will double in 50 years
“We are facing doubling of the size of North Texas in population in the next 50 years, and we cannot build enough roads.”
Councilman Lee Kleinman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:19 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kleinman: Dockless bike share companies bear full costs without city subsidies
“Every company we've talked to up until the dockless showed up, wanted us to partner with them, which basically meant spend money to get the docks and the bikes in our city. Whereas when dockless came around, they're picking up the entire cost.”
Councilman Lee Kleinman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:22 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kleinman: Smaller bike sharing vendors in Dallas are already failing
“And we're actually seeing, I think already a fallout of one or two companies who really have just not kept pace. The bikes do seem to be available where they need to be from the bigger vendors and the smaller vendors just can't keep up.”
Councilman Lee Kleinman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:18 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing
Assertion Supported
Kleinman: Dallas operates the largest light rail system in North America
“One of our claims to fame is we have the largest light rail system in North America.”
Councilman Lee Kleinman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:20 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing
Assertion Contradicted
Kleinman: Dallas has no undeveloped land left and must grow vertically
“In Dallas, we're really bound by our suburbs. There's no way we can grow out. The only way we can grow is up. So for us to move forward economically, we've got to have more density. We have no more undeveloped land, especially north of downtown.”
Councilman Lee Kleinman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:03 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing
Assertion Partly supported
Kleinman: Dallas plans 1,000 miles of bike lanes, deploying 50 annually
“So our bike plan, like I mentioned, has like a thousand miles of bike lanes on it, and we're only deploying, you know, 50 miles a year or something like that.”
Councilman Lee Kleinman Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:59 a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
a16z Podcast | All about Bike Sharing Jan 2, 2019 7m
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