Mr. ROBERT CEVERO (Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley): Hi.

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Robert Cervero is chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Nonetheless, says Pat Stevens of the regional planning authority, the city will not be able to cope without the water the Corps had promised it.

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And one way of doing that is to create what's called an infrastructure bank where at least a certain amount of infrastructure money, particularly for new projects, would be guided by some clear criteria, a lot of transparency, engineers and urban planners and city planners involved in the process so that we can also get some regional planning.

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