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Sure but that's just the first few years. Again there is a fundamental human mechanism at work, mission drift. Just like a startup's workforce is very self-sele
by Barrin92 5y ago
Sure but that's just the first few years. Again there is a fundamental human mechanism at work, mission drift. Just like a startup's workforce is very self-selected, so is a startup city. But cities last generations and hundreds of years, and even your startup will not be run by the same people in 20 years as it was at year 0. It's why companies go from dynamic, YIMBY startups to becoming Oracle.
So this question needs a serious answer. You can write something in the charter, but what's stopping enough people from changing the charter 30 years down the line? All NIMBY American cities started out as startups, the country's not that old. Little more than a century ago the West was associated with the frontier life.
- phendrenad2 5y agoNo one has knocked down your argument, so they downvote your argument. The NIMBYification of a city happens slowly as more people in the city have wealth, and want to store it in their homes. If a city has a charter, people will simply enact NIMBY laws in a suburb, and due to the wealth accumulated there, it will become the new center of the region. Look at how SF went from hippies and artists on the edge of silicon valley, to being the center of silicon valley.