In a piece in the Palm Beach Daily News, Andres Duany “promotes unbiased democracy in community planning.”
How?
Duany pointed to Perth, Australia, as an example of a community with an effective community planning program. The city uses jury rolls to get representative opinions on public projects.
“When the discussion comes up, the local opposition talks — you know the people being affected, the immediate neighbors, all the vested interests. But it’s understood they are vested interests,” Duany said. “They don’t confuse the vested interests with the community as a whole. And then the 150 (or so volunteers from jury-pool rolls) speak and the city council knows what the community wants and they have cover. And then democracy works.”
