> This is because I value incumbent residents and future residents equally, but local control only can give the former group of people a voice. In this way, I d

> This is because I value incumbent residents and future residents equally, but local control only can give the former group of people a voice. In this way, I do absolutely find it anti-democratic. Maybe I'm just a hick who doesn't understand big city think. But I interpret this to read "The people around here can't make proper decisions for our future, so let's depend on everyone else from other places to make the decisions for us and force us to obey." That logic seems flawed.