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State capacity and eight parking spaces
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By October 2024, city officials were calling this eight-space parking lot their “largest and most ambitious EV-charging station project to date” — a phrase that should make every taxpayer, YIMBY, and urbanist weep. The problem isn’t that any individual step was wrong — it’s that we’ve created a system where building eight parking spaces requires the same bureaucratic overhead as a major infrastructure project. And if we can’t deliver something as straightforward as EV charging stations in a reasonable timeframe, we probably shouldn’t be surprised when voters lose faith in government’s ability to tackle bigger challenges.
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