[mhays]

He's got a tough hill to climb. Northwesterners, at least urban ones, are generally in favor of planning. In fact we tend to scream bloody murder when something is proposed that doesn't match our preference for our neighborhood, and we realize that zoning is pretty much the only bulwark.

Houston is an excellent example of what happens without planning. Houston, you have a problem.

I assume urbanpdx isn't saying he likes this guy.