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A humane solution for Austin’s prevalent homelessness issues? Don’t need it.
A mayor who doesn’t jet off to Cabo while telling others to stay in their basements? We’ll pass.
Roads and public transit that fit the needs of a metropolitan area that grew by over half a million people in the last decade? Get out of here.
We’re having block parties, baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And they’re gonna be so damn streamlined.
One fun thing to remember about this is that “streamlining,” in this case, basically means simplifying rules that the city already put in place. It’s like if I kept tearing your mail to shreds and making you pick it up from my stoop, and then I stopped tearing it to shreds but kept making you pick it up from my stoop, and told you, “Hey! I streamlined this!”
In this case, though, the streamlining is clearly necessary, because the closest I’ve come to being invited to a block party in my three years in this town is the time our old apartment complex had tacos at the pool. Streamline away, Austin city government. I’ll start stocking up on Hawaiian shirts and topics for small talk.
