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•New cities offer a chance to rethink how local government works
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California is at a crossroads, but some of its wealthiest and most-innovative residents are crafting plans to build new cities.
It's uncertain whether they can break through the Byzantine slow-growth regulatory process the state has developed in the last 50 years .
California 's progressive lawmakers have tried to address it by allowing streamlined "by right" development approvals.
New cities offer more housing and the possible rethinking of local government.
Our country long has encouraged new developments of every type, which have provided the neighborhoods and homes we live in today . It's time to start encouraging them again. This column was first published in The Orange County Register ..
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