All you had to do was read Stanley Kurtz’s book, Spreading the Wealth, to see this was coming down the pike.
This stuff is already baked in the cake in our town’s planning process. They’ve alluded to the grant money, and to being aligned (already) with federal regulations that haven’t been released.
The presentation is gauzy and dreamlike, but questions are treated with hostility. The “process” looks like Delphi. The consultant is from Ithaca. What could go wrong?