I'd like to start-out by saying that I think your approach makes a lot of sense. There are probably a lot of duplications of City services that we're all not aware of.
The most important aspect of facilitating a meaningful outcome for what you're proposing is going to be to somehow find a way to break-down the "boundaries" at the neighborhood level. The real dillemma is this - every neighborhood has been "trained" to think that increased services within their boundaries is "good", and decreased services are "bad". Somehow, we need to get neighborhoods thinking again along the lines of what they want and what they're actually willing to pay for (in the form of increased taxes) out of their own pocket-books..
The critical issue, in my mind anyway, is how to get people to stop thinking like citizens of a neighborhod, and get them to start thinking like citizens of a city.
Dennis Plante Jordan
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