blocking redevelopment of themselves
It’s not just blocking redevelopments of themselves. It’s blocking almost all development almost everywhere.
As an example—take a look at Scott’s Alexander writing about California Forever/Flannery.
Flannery wants to build a new city in California and has already bought almost a billion worth of land for it. Solano County where the land is located has a so-called “Orderly Growth Measure” saying that new building should happen in existing cities and not on empty land. In order to start building at all, they have to win a referendum granting an exemption.
On Feb 19th I came from London to visit my parents in Lviv (first time since September). On 24th I woke up to Russian attack, general mobilization order and prohibition to leave the country.
Failure #1: didn’t take possibility and impact of total Russian attack in consideration when planning the trip.
I mentioned to a coworker that countries moving embassies out of Kyiv is a costly signal. Nevertheless I looked at it and went into cached thought: the war is localized to parts of Donbas.
Failure #2: on morning of 24th it was possible to leave the country. I didn’t. Looking back - it feels like I was in the freeze mode from Fight/Flight/Freeze triad. I got out of stupor and doomscroling by end of day. By that time males of my age were prohibited to leave the country.