This actually seems quite solvable by reducing local neighborhood's ability to influence new development. Everyone wants the situation to improve, NIMBY's know

This actually seems quite solvable by reducing local neighborhood's ability to influence new development. Everyone wants the situation to improve, NIMBY's know how to block it. On a ballot measure the majority can rightly assume that development will not affect their immediate neighborhood. Some of these problems require City or Regional policy to manage, deferring to local neighborhoods leads to gridlock.