You're right, Marcus. There isn't one single good idea anywhere. Better to clench your butt, squeeze your eyes shut tight and just hope. That oughtta "build a denser city with more places to live". Yup, give up on any idea of a liveable city. We don't need parkland. We don't need the traffic lanes and bike lanes that the builders block for months or years at a time with their cranes and trucks. Etc. 

Just let business do their thing.

And by the way, the OMB only protects business interests. Why shouldn't a city be able to implement a strategy for, again, "building a denser city with more places to live"? But on a scale and in a manner that the people, as represented by the gov't they elect, want? You know, democratically...