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Opinion: D.C. dysfunction means Bay Space should work collectively, dream large to resolve its issues

Editorial Board Published August 16, 2025
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Washington is an never-ending supply of tumult lately, and it features a sure animosity towards the Bay Space. Of us are treating it like a significant setback for our area.

However what if it represents a recent set of alternatives? An opportunity to go it on our personal and invent the long run we wish for ourselves?

There’s nothing stopping us.

There might have been a time once we relied on Washington to set route, to offer help for native applications, and to come back by means of with main infusions of cash. These days are over.

There was even as soon as a time once we regarded to the Capitol for thought management on the issues going through main metropolitan areas. That’s not taking place both.

Right here’s what is occurring: we’ve a federal authorities swallowed up in ideology and partisan rancor, and hampered by large deficits. The coverage scene is a graveyard of stalled agendas and congressional stalemate.

In such a setting, our native points — reasonably priced housing, mounting homelessness, creaking infrastructure, metastasizing inequality and sustainability challenges, amongst others — will get scant consideration. In the event that they do, the Bay Space can be handled like a whipping boy, then left to duke it out with different metros competing for the crumbs. Our present federal actors solely reward those that drink the Kool-Support or interact of their grossly partisan ways.

It’s off-putting and morally bankrupt.

We’re naturally suited to this. The Bay’s points aren’t ideological and most of us aren’t wired as ideologues anyway. There’s nothing notably partisan about constructing out our transportation system, addressing our housing woes, decreasing the danger of disasters, or attaining our sustainability targets.

Working on the regional stage additionally has profound benefits over the federal system: our involvement will be rapid, energetic, steady, and extremely participatory; we are able to leverage our current networks; we are able to use the collaboration and teamwork that comes so naturally right here.

Suppose large, collectively

The place ought to we begin? What are the area’s most urgent challenges?

Here’s a beginning checklist of issues which can be inside our grasp, would discover assist in Sacramento, and don’t require direct federal involvement:

We are able to consolidate the Bay Space’s fragmented transit system and provides it a single lead authority with a mandate (and adequate sources) for integration and enlargement.

That lead authority can look far into the long run to anticipate coming revolutions in transportation expertise, and plan for them.

We are able to harness the promise of the Bay itself, to be a hall for high-speed water transport, utilizing environmentally delicate jet foils and hovercraft.

We are able to enact everlasting, user-based funding mechanisms for infrastructure in the identical method that we’ve enacted ongoing funding for colleges, as an alternative of the hodge-podge of gross sales taxes and one-off measures we use proper now.

We are able to take coordinated regional approaches to help our unhoused inhabitants, changing the city-by-city method we’re utilizing now (which inevitably bumps encampments from one locality to the subsequent).

We are able to supercharge the Bay Space’s fledgling housing authority: give it the instruments to lastly combine housing, land-use and transportation planning, and produce game-changing options to our housing disaster.

We are able to fast-track issues like photo voltaic panels or communications infrastructure by adopting uniform ordinances throughout all 101 Bay Space cities.

We are able to incentivize the approaching revolutions in agriculture that apply hydroponics, banks of LED lights, vertical planting, and AI watering algorithms to extend yields and decrease costs. We are able to enhance the native supply techniques.

We are able to construct out our electrical infrastructure for automobiles, e-bikes and city-run on-demand scooters.

We are able to enact private-public partnerships to offer revolutionary, market-based financing for main initiatives past the attain of our public establishments.

We are able to create alternative and tackle our earnings gaps by constructing workforce coaching establishments at a regional scale, ones which can be totally in sync with the wants of our cutting-edge firms.

Maybe most significantly, we are able to guarantee we’re offering the form of coverage and enterprise local weather required for our innovation ecosystem to thrive.

We’re actually good at this right here! Our innovation is unsurpassed! We all know find out how to experiment, make arduous decisions, and take acceptable dangers.

Wouldn’t it’s nice — wouldn’t it really feel so empowering — if we utilized all of that inventive power with a laser focus onto the civic enviornment?

Taking step one

Within the early Nineteen Nineties far-seeing leaders arrange the Bay Imaginative and prescient 2020 process drive to think about a greater future for our area. A few of their targets have been by no means realized, however the effort established a worthy precedent we are able to use at this time.

The duty drive ought to be led by the general public sector, with the big-city mayors out in entrance. However they have to be joined by heads of firms, the foremost universities, the massive medical campuses, labor unions, enterprise organizations, environmental teams, and the main foundations. The hassle ought to be resourced appropriately.

We must always count on this physique to look 50 years into the long run and do an expansive, unbound visioning train. What sort of area will we wish to be? What are the world areas we admire, and what are the most effective practices we must always emulate? What institutional frameworks and governance constructions ought to we create? Figuring out we are able to’t obtain something with out investing, what monetary mechanisms ought to we use?

What’s completely clear is that we’ve a chance, and we don’t want anyone however ourselves to benefit from it. The crazed nationwide scene? It doesn’t matter. Let presidents preach about ideology; right here at house we’ll simply give attention to getting stuff executed. We’re doers, not debaters. We’re innovating, not arguing. We’re pragmatic, not partisan.

The one factor stopping us is ourselves.

Russell Hancock is president and CEO of Joint Enterprise Silicon Valley and an adjunct professor of Public Coverage at Stanford College.

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