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Judgment & ambiguity · When to act

You're pursuing an entitlement, and community opposition is building ahead of a planning-commission hearing while your carrying costs run every month. Do you proceed to the hearing as scheduled, request a continuance to negotiate, or scale the project back preemptively?

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Going to a hearing you'll lose is worse than delaying, because a denial can taint the site and force you to start over — so the trigger isn't the calendar, it's whether I have the votes.

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