Jay Evensen: Planning for a good future could get you booted from office

Maybe, like me, you picked up the phone sometime before the most recent election and heard a robot asking you questions about high-density housing. The ones I got asked me to press buttons to indicate whether I thought my city had enough of it, needed more, or would do better with less.These were not frivolous questions during a municipal campaign season in a rapidly growing metropolitan area. Political careers hung in the balance.Which brings me to the ironies of dealing with growth.The Point o