Is the question at hand about balancing local building authorization with the government's intent to encourage a specific kind of national infrastructure businesses?
This seems to be supported by this quote:
> Putting arbitrary deadlines on state, local, and Tribal governments to start and finish complicated permit reviews...
I'm not an American but I am alarmed at the recent tendency for bad-faith rule making. However - the above sounds in reasonably good faith - is that indeed the case or am I missing some angle?
No big business in the US acts in good faith so the fact they are cheering this on tells me to be suspect. My read of this is they want to juice returns / timelines by avoiding bureaucracy and the city / local residents will deal with the inevitable mess.
My 30 year old neighborhood in CA is _just_ getting fiber laid now. I have cox over coaxial and my internet uptime is a mess. They don't care, where else am I gonna go? I welcome a federal effort to lay fiber and eliminate any reason a normal consumer would ever need to contact a coax cable for the rest of their lives.
This sounds fantastic. "Local control over building" always ends up being a bunch of NIMBYs making life hard. Considering the amount of "it will ruin this community" I've heard about literally every possible thing, and the idea of "environmental review" to block a "historic parking lot" from being replaced by a food bank, I think a deadline with by-right building is good.
Is the question at hand about balancing local building authorization with the government's intent to encourage a specific kind of national infrastructure businesses?
This seems to be supported by this quote:
> Putting arbitrary deadlines on state, local, and Tribal governments to start and finish complicated permit reviews...
I'm not an American but I am alarmed at the recent tendency for bad-faith rule making. However - the above sounds in reasonably good faith - is that indeed the case or am I missing some angle?
Worth reading the letter from local govs as they lay out why this is such a complicated and slow problem: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/20251...
No big business in the US acts in good faith so the fact they are cheering this on tells me to be suspect. My read of this is they want to juice returns / timelines by avoiding bureaucracy and the city / local residents will deal with the inevitable mess.
My 30 year old neighborhood in CA is _just_ getting fiber laid now. I have cox over coaxial and my internet uptime is a mess. They don't care, where else am I gonna go? I welcome a federal effort to lay fiber and eliminate any reason a normal consumer would ever need to contact a coax cable for the rest of their lives.
This sounds fantastic. "Local control over building" always ends up being a bunch of NIMBYs making life hard. Considering the amount of "it will ruin this community" I've heard about literally every possible thing, and the idea of "environmental review" to block a "historic parking lot" from being replaced by a food bank, I think a deadline with by-right building is good.