Paris's burbs are making process notably because they tend to override local towns opinion now. My parents' hometown of 7000 in the (very lower middle class) e

Paris's burbs are making process notably because they tend to override local towns opinion now. My parents' hometown of 7000 in the (very lower middle class) exhurbs was slated for around 300 new housing next to the train station. As usual everyone was upset at the town halls because "it will add traffic" "they are too dense", "it will degrade our quality of life", they got overriden, the houses & apartments got built anyway, and good riddance. I've been to the exact same town halls in the bay area with the same bullshit arguments, except people end up with the power to actually make those projects not happen.