[JohnMakin]

Landowners get extremely hostile to the type of housing required to alleviate this problem and usually dies on the vine in any city council

[kelseyfrog]

I'm increasingly an advocate for removing public comment on planning meetings. Those who show up are too invested and those far away are too underinvested. It leads to warped city planning decisions.

[mistrial9]

without sunshine laws the process gets worse not better?

[kelseyfrog]

I'm a bit confused because I believe we can have transparency without community input. Compelling the system to speak is orthogonal to letting the community speak.