I feel like my man Archie could use some challenge to his comfort

Yeah, the SDC waiver is actual countable cash money dollars. If that waiver *doesn't* work, I'm not sure anything else city govt can do will work either

I understand the inherent fungibility of electricity on a grid, which is why more transmission will almost always help everyone. But in the new data-centered marketplace, this appears to be quite a cautionary tale for consumer ratepayers and regulators.

But this is coming from a borderline-pathological rules and processes guy who doesn't know very much about the substance here, so it is quite likely a "me problem" ...

But in the context of the city council resolution (and John's suggestion), what is the "temporary suspension" for? An interim measure to buy time to fix rules and processes, or simply waiving rules and processes that cost money to stimulate development? Or both? I might suspend different things.

Honestly, I don't know enough about it to have any opinion. But I'd want to know what the problems really are. Like, is it mainly a problem with the design *rules* or with the design *review process*?

From what I'm hearing it is VERY mediated. DCAs seem to be the brokers of info and workflow.

You're right about more staff being not enough, but it helps to be less dependent of the exec branch. And yes, the Council needs to be much more active and adept in oversight and accountability. There are lots of mechanisms, good cop to bad, but Council just needs to use them.

Some people are saying ...
www.portland.gov/transition/d...

To be fair, I've heard quite a bit of frustration from the Council side about getting exec branch information and cooperation to do the policy development. This sort of thing may be the only way to force them to pay attention. .

Without getting into the substance, this seems too much like outsourcing policymaking (or oversight?) to the executive branch. This stage should probably be more like a conference room brainstorming session, or a worksession, not a resolution. "Outline a legislative pathway" is a job for Council.

1. "Let Google call" agent for consumers
2. "Let Google answer" agent for retailers
3. Let Google take a fee on both sides of any subsequent transaction
4. Profit

Kind of a dark humor for a lighter note Yume

Awesome. That's a word for it.

But the average is moving. For any time-bracketed historical average, the next average over the same bracket will be higher. Which is also to say, an average of future Novembers will necessarily be "average to warm" compared to the historical Novembers. (With statistical caveats blah blah...)

#Actually I think it is. (Though I acknowledge that a mathematical proof would require setting a baseline and some statistical assumptions.) The bureaucratic proof though is that the weather service resets the 30-year "averages" upwards every 10 years or so.