Seattle Convention Center:
Bathroom stalls have cutouts in order to prevent people from shooting up in the bathrooms.
Everywhere around Seattle from public places outside to bathrooms in grocery stores I noticed these needle drop-boxes. From my knowledge on public health, the idea seems to be that the government is accepting that no matter what rules and regulations are in place, people might abuse drugs. Given that, the government is trying to minimize the spread of disease because of needle sharing.
In Portland, they were trying to reduce fossil fuel emissions. In order to do so, they aimed to reduce the number of people using automobiles for transportation. The workaround here was to paint some of the road green for a designated bike lane. According to my friend, this significantly reduced the number of car commuters.