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I have a close family member who works in municipal planning, and it's exactly what you describe. Wealthy-ish, semiretired older local people, or non-locals wi
by elevaet 5y ago
I have a close family member who works in municipal planning, and it's exactly what you describe.
Wealthy-ish, semiretired older local people, or non-locals with vacation property who do everything they can to shut down any kind of housing project. Their methods include suing the town at great expense to the taxpayers and floating their own and sympathetic friends into town council.
It's extremely frustrating when a really well designed development that takes a year and millions to craft can get shut down in a single meeting by a very loud, adamant and group of busybodies.
- Dracophoenix 5y ago> Their methods include suing the town at great expense to the taxpayers and floating their own and sympathetic friends into town council. Those very same people are the taxpayers. They have and should have the right to represent their interests in a court of law. If the town ends up being a victim of it, so be it.
- elevaet 5y agoActually funny you should mention that because one of them actually is not a taxpayer in the municipality that she sued (and lost). So no, they are not all taxpayers, but some are, it is true. Yes, of course they have this right, I don't dispute that. But when a single case like this eats up literally 10% of a small town's yearly budget, and the same small group of people repeatedly behave in this way, I also have the right to call them assholes.