From the article:

> Some blamed the district city supervisor who helped make the change permanent by placing on a citywide ballot a measure to turn the 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) stretch into a new park.

If city residents vote themselves a park against the wishes of people living in the district where the park is located, it doesn't seem like different party politics would fix that. You'd have to get rid of direct democracy ballot measures instead to avoid this kind of "tyranny of the majority" situation.

I'm more responding to the situation in CA locally and statewide. I used to drive on that freeway specifically to get to a friend's house.

Also even if something is voted on, a lot of outreach is not conservative based (at least it hasn't been traditionally). So the "majority" didn't decide on this.