> Dialing back citizens’ rights to participate in public projects would seem politically unfeasible. So is having design processes decoupled from project budge

> Dialing back citizens’ rights to participate in public projects would seem politically unfeasible. So is having design processes decoupled from project budgets. Just restrict the participation to budget neutral things. The political decision to build something and what it can cost can’t be followed by another process where it snowballs to 5x the cost?