I'm out of the loop on much of this. As for #2, I have thought long and hard on the forced support that has been pitched. My main concern before being it would just be more projects handed off to those in the inner circles with little to show for it other than those in the inner circles having fatter wallets as little to nothing was actually built.
But let's say that projects are worked on and completed. Has the idea that these forced community funded projects belong then to the community, and not the developer who was funded been explored? Seems if we end up with forced funding these projects it should make us part owners too.