Hermod, no sense even trying to get DNerd off his agenda. Its fact resistant. Its a tough as the agendas he fabricates for others.

Couple thoughts.

If you want a regional agenda, you should work with your region. Detroit, convinced that the deck is stacked against it, doesn't play well with others -- so sensible regional policy with urban considerations will only get so much play statewide. Perhaps as inner-ring suburbs such as RO start pushing urban planning, we'll get some results.

The desire for sprawl is real and can't be wished away. All we can do is work to assign the costs of sprawl to the creators. Hard to do while you instead fight regionalization.