Some kind of democratically elected board of soulless government bureaucrats. Basically the same configuration as makes the decisions now, except on a regional

Some kind of democratically elected board of soulless government bureaucrats. Basically the same configuration as makes the decisions now, except on a regional rather than community scale. The point is not to remove accountability, but to prevent small municipalities from having veto power on things that would vastly improve people's quality of life regionwide (like a BART line to Marin, for example).