One idea I find interesting is to create a kind of jury system for planning. Randomly select a group of people from the community to serve six month or a year on a "planning jury", pay them for their time, and solicit their input on zoning matters. (In lieu of expecting people to show up to an unpublicized meeting on a weeknight in a school gym halfway across town.) You might poll them anonymously or have them deliberate, and I'm sure there is or would be some interesting research on how the choice to do one or the other affects the decisions they make.
Representativeness through random sampling was good enough for ancient Athens and modern courts, why not here?
It seems like Tyler Cowen was sub-blogging you: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874211065776
Music to my ears! (also hi Alex!)
One idea I find interesting is to create a kind of jury system for planning. Randomly select a group of people from the community to serve six month or a year on a "planning jury", pay them for their time, and solicit their input on zoning matters. (In lieu of expecting people to show up to an unpublicized meeting on a weeknight in a school gym halfway across town.) You might poll them anonymously or have them deliberate, and I'm sure there is or would be some interesting research on how the choice to do one or the other affects the decisions they make.
Representativeness through random sampling was good enough for ancient Athens and modern courts, why not here?