You've said it in traffic. You've said it at the permit counter. You've said it standing over a pothole deep enough to name. "The city should just…" — and then something obvious, cheap, and long overdue. Good news: we're writing them all down. Tell us yours.
A starter wall. Some are eminently doable, some are cheerfully unreasonable, and a couple are both. That's the point — dumb-sounding ideas are how good ones sneak in.
fix the pothole on Hopkins before it files for its own council district.
keep the permit counter open past 4 pm — some of us have jobs during city hours.
let restaurants keep their parklets without a $3,000-a-year ransom.
publish every contract over $50k in plain English a human can actually read.
close one block of Fourth Street to cars on Sundays and watch it get better, not worse.
put a shot clock on housing permits — approve or explain, in writing, in 60 days.
make the North Berkeley BART lot actually turn into homes this decade.
let the farmers market run year-round and stop treating a table of vegetables like a felony.
fill the storm drains before the storm, not the week after the flood.
// These are examples, not promises. Some Steve loves, some he'd argue with you about for an hour. Both are welcome.
No idea too small, too big, or too petty. The blocked bike lane, the light that never turns, the city form that asks for your fax number. Write it down — we read every single one.