First mistake:  hiring outside consultants.  They are often very good and have awesome suggestions.  But they don't have a stake in their advice, other than completing the research and output task.  The best the Muni can do is do what they have been doing on say, the 4th Avenue Theatre  and the Northern Lights Inn.  (Forcing the Fang's hand.)  I wish the admin was more muscular and robust on Pot Development, another chance for smart-bomb action and weighing in.  They largely sat on the fence.  Those are the kinds of things, and the things like Cook Inlet is doing, that are the right path.  Accepting that government can't control others choices, and that it needs to set the table and weigh in on specific developments, but master planning is largely fruitless.  And it is the same cast of characters.  The careerists, and the elected officials of the moment.  Meanwhile, the people that actually are doing things see this activity largely for what it is:  a misallocation of focus and resourc