Long‐​range planning by government land‐​use planners – while it disrespects individual choices – also gets lots of stuff wrong. Very wrong. Cato Institute Senior Fellow Randal O’Toole addressed some of the problems with long‐​term land‐​use planning at Cato University in Rancho Bernardo, California in July. O’Toole is author of the forthcoming Cato book, Gridlock.