The bureaucracy in California definitely feels excessive. Taxes are too high and don't seem to be helping solve the numerous social problems that California is

The bureaucracy in California definitely feels excessive. Taxes are too high and don't seem to be helping solve the numerous social problems that California is facing. But politically is seems that one of the biggest issues hindering development is how different municipal governments can block and sabotage regional projects at the expense of the rest of the state (e.g. billionaires in Atherton preventing high speed rail "because it would be too noisy"). Is diving the state into even more political units the solution?