I have lived in Anchorage for my whole life which is approaching 50 years, so yes I want to shape my city. Before we had people shaping Anchorage, we had prostitutes on every corner downtown, we had brothels lining Spenard and prostitutes walking Spenard. Drug dealers would stand on the corner and inebriates would line the side walks. I grew up in Muldoon where there was uncontrolled development, the street i grew up on still has no curbs, no drainage as does much of Muldoon. Those who live in a community get to to decide what it looks like, they vote and pay taxes. If you don;t like it take your Union Pension and move to Wasilla or better yet Cantwell. This talk about government over reach is bull, I bet you had no problem when Bush and the GOP congress passsed the Patriot act and started spying on us did you?