Ya gotta divide and conquer, change the rules with basic good law, and shift the sand so there is struggle to adapt. We divide revenues very precisely; they remain separate. People voted for 1% of highway funds to go to bike-paths, and that's what happens. We made it law that garbage licenses have to include recycling pickup (years ago), and it works, putting the transportation and efficiency burdens in the right place. Now garbage companies support less packaging.
Positive amendments to laws, like HMO regs, happen. When a law turns out not to work, it gets modified. The land use laws/urban growth boundaries enacted 25 years ago have worked. Drive around any city here and you can see them. We have advanced logging laws; stream enforcement. Our mass-transit is popular with everyone; all classes. The Portland Riverfront is one of the most beautiful in the world; almost all of it is public park, like the living room of the city.
The citizens own every inch of ocean beach in the state, to the high tide line.
California has problems. Size and money, getting into the legislature. You can't get a clear and simple law to pass.
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