This is a good time, maybe the best time, to stop "Growth". It is already stopped anyway so what's the big deal? How can we "hurt" those who are already dead? We can help them come back to life if we redirect their interest into something not so boom/bust.

Suppose we were to insist that from now on infrastructure and building be coordinated? Not just on paper, not just with smoke and mirrors, but really!

Let's get the hard numbers that the traffic problem is solved, on paper and on the ground, already achieved, before any more building is approved. Let's get all the water, power and sewer issues ahead of the curve as well. These projects alone will take up the efforts of a great number of our currently unemployed.

It is no accident that gridlock and sales deflation have coincided. Who wants to buy anything in a place where they can't move freely? It is excessive development that has killed real estate sales more than anything else, stop it now!