From the 9/6/07 Ranchland News
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The inverse of this litany of complaints is an empty set. I fail to see how throwing up emotional stonewalls like this helps matters. Perhaps planning authorities should require, as a condition for objecting to a proposed development, an alternative proposal. This might tend to limit these negative mantras. Even if the alternative proposal were only to maintain the status-quo, if parties had to evaluate the status-quo and formulate reasons for the value of maintaining it, then developers and anti-developers would at least have some basis for discussion. These stonewall battles are time-consuming and destructive.