What Port Washington established is not opposition in principle — it is a governance structure that communities elsewhere can adopt before a deal lands on a city council agenda. The referendum's mechanism is narrow and transferable: any project seeking substantial public subsidy must face a public vote. That framing sidesteps the harder argument about whether AI infrastructure is welcome at all and instead relocates power from appointed officials to residents. The passed at 66%, a threshold high enough that any developer reading the result cannot…