This is not informative. Pick any planning meeting, at random, from anywhere in the United States, and you will find someone like this. Cranks are everywhere, a

This is not informative. Pick any planning meeting, at random, from anywhere in the United States, and you will find someone like this. Cranks are everywhere, and practically the entire purpose of public meetings are so that the cranks have a place to go rant and "be heard" by local officials. The real question is: does anyone listen to them, and if so, why? There's usually a good reason that isn't being discussed. Silicon valley bedroom communities should be building more housing, but this kind of stuff is just straw-man argumentation.