Well those goal posts just got 10yard farther away. Regardless, as a civil engineer reading the political winds is already part of his job. If the city is gus

Well those goal posts just got 10yard farther away. Regardless, as a civil engineer reading the political winds is already part of his job. If the city is gushing over bike lanes you better be sure that your proposal mentions how you've spec'd things out to include potential for easily adding a bike lane even if what you proposed is not special in that regard. This is no more chilling than the maze of routine mixed messages politics and game theory he already has to deal with. Chilling is the whole point of this law. He's presumably not an idiot and he figured that out as soon as he knew about the change. If he thought suing the state would actually jeopardize his income (suing the state creates a massive conflict of interest his government clients could easily use to justify cutting ties) he almost certainly wouldn't be doing it. In reality he knows how the people he does business with lean and knows they won't care or will think well of his lawsuit.