Repeal prop 13, get a real debate on immigration and cap population levels based on what the water supply can support.
We certainly don’t need more freeways. Actually toll roads would be very nice. You drive more, you pay more.
I don’t see how you can make elected officials more honest PS it hasn’t happened before in human history, and while your beautification ideas are pretty good, even you admit we can’t fund them. So the ideas that would make SD a better place to live involve creating funding sources so we can do some things to make our lives better.