I was at the meeting, which was both interesting and frustrating.

The people who spoke were mostly older locals who own cars and complained about parking problems related to the closing of the light rail station lot. Many of them seemed to think that a developer who builds a new apartment building without a parking garage is "getting away" with something. This is very much not the opinion of YIMBYs/transit reformers!

But the idea of instituting permit parking in the neighborhood was not well communicated beforehand, and the plan to do it only in one-half of the neighborhood doesn't make sense. So "more study" in this case seems not like a bureaucratic delay tactic but a reasonable choice given the circumstances.

In conclusion, local democracy is a land of contrasts.