I don't really have a problem with engaging the democratic process. Bringing fiber to Seattle is a long term infrastructure project that will last for many decades. In the grand scheme of things, expediting the permit process hardly makes a difference.
The author seems to really hate citizen participation. I'm sure people don't understand fiber very well and there are a lot of opinions and concerns out there which aren't necessarily valid, but that's going to be true of anything new.
Cutting the public out of the debate about innovations doesn't seem like a good path to take. The solution is to provide a more effective forum for this debate to happen, not to put a stop to it.
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I don't really have a problem with engaging the democratic process. Bringing fiber to Seattle is a long term infrastructure project that will last for many decades. In the grand scheme of things, expediting the permit process hardly makes a difference.
The author seems to really hate citizen participation. I'm sure people don't understand fiber very well and there are a lot of opinions and concerns out there which aren't necessarily valid, but that's going to be true of anything new.
Cutting the public out of the debate about innovations doesn't seem like a good path to take. The solution is to provide a more effective forum for this debate to happen, not to put a stop to it.