I'm not sure what Oakland is doing is actually a major change. It's like something just triggered the money to flow to finish a bunch of projects in the east ba

I'm not sure what Oakland is doing is actually a major change. It's like something just triggered the money to flow to finish a bunch of projects in the east bay. But the spigot could just turn off again. There's something broken in city planning that seems to be the largest hurdle to addressing affordability. Cities seem to want to have a box with a label on a map that doesn't change much. Then, if something changes within that box, there needs to be this big massive process. The "real fix" might be figuring out how cities can work on a smaller scale, not with these massive projects. Just look at the report for the Oakland plan: https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FINAL_DOSP-Public-Review-Draft-Plan_082819_Compressed.pdf https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/FINAL_DOSP-Publ... I'm struck by how much it must have cost to even generate that plan. And, there's a ton of goals, but no feedback loop. As the plans are implemented over the next decade or two, how do they know what's going well and what isn't?