Critically Speaking: Pulling the plug on freeway expansion
Why it’s important to show up for your community.
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A big part of my job is attending public meetings.
That's meant long nights in city hall, churches (sometimes in their basements), park community buildings and even tents set up in the parking lots of parks to accommodate the overflow crowds who wanted to keep the city’s zoning closer to 1950 than 2018, when the controversial land use element update was adopted.