What process is being set up to translate report into action?

Is The Innovation Team able to initiate the reforms suggested?

The MPO is like the United Nations. Biggest member can’t control outcome. And even if Memphis could have stronger voice, the 2 state highway departments don’t listen anyway.

Sprawl has proven to be an economically unsustainable and inefficient way to use land. Mahron’s analysis shows that, like almost every American city, we have focused on spreading out rather than concentrating and intensifying our resources. The result is more and wider roads, longer sewers, and diluted fire and police protection. More importantly, larger lots with fewer buildings produce smaller tax revenues, forcing all of us to pay more for those unnecessary roads and sewers.

Therefore, sprawl takes money from all of us. It’s purely an economic issue that affects all of our wallets. We should all be concerned that it does not continue. That is why Mahron argues that as a total community, we must develop, prioritize, and implement more effective, efficient development policies. It is completely a matter of economic self-interest.

For a clearer explanation, visit the StrongTowns.org website and download their document called Curbside Chat.

Not news.
So the question is:
Is this a problem of city government’s paradigm being woefully out of touch with reality,
OR
the typical state and federal “cash grab” with no accountability for results, no oversight, and no watchdog to make sure money even makes it to where it’s supposed to go no matter how bad the plan is,
and
no one to even make sure the plan is anything but a bureaucracy to hide graft?

I’m glad the mayor is on top of this.
I hope that we can now get things done, presumably.

mess with Lipscomb’s fiefdom? right! no problem.