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The blog post doesn't do a good job of explaining why the best way to do this was some shadowy group, funded by tech billionaires, anonymously buying up a bunch

• Eddy_Viscosity2 3y ago
  > Why does one company apparently need to own all the land and treat it as a master development? Likely because they wanted that full control and had the wealth to achieve it. They may want this for several reasons, like because generally people like having control, or maybe because they thought this had the fewest barriers to success. Getting changes voted in can be difficult, even if the changes are objectively good: a) a small number of people are engaged enough to vote on municipal issues, b) sometime people are just suspicious of any change whatsoever and so reflexively vote to keep things the same, c) almost always there will be some people(s) who will not benefit from the change and will fight very hard to sabotage/corrupt/discredit it.