On a recent weekend almost a dozen officers worked to manage the gridlock that affected most of the streets around Emeryville's commercial district. Police officers handling the traffic are working on overtime because the force must maintain regular on-duty patrols. The city plans to send Ikea a bill. You can't do anything without political will. He stressed that planning is a long-term project, not about tomorrow but about years from now.
Planning has one ingredient, which is time.
The American city rebuilds itself every fifteen years. It's important to see past the present. With San Francisco's impossibly high occupancy rate, city residents are lucky to have their houses and apartments. But parking is often impossible, Muni is sketchy, and the climate leads to dry rot. Georgetown, in Washington, D.C., is a similar environment.