{"id":61,"date":"2007-09-06T12:29:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T19:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/archives\/61"},"modified":"2007-09-15T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T17:25:13","slug":"a-mantra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/a-mantra\/","title":{"rendered":"a mantra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->From the 9\/6\/07 Ranchland News<\/p>\n<p>(click thumbnail to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/resident-comments.jpg\" title=\"Elizabeth anti-development mantra\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/resident-comments.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth anti-development mantra\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inverse of this litany of complaints is an empty set.\u00a0 I fail to see how throwing up emotional stonewalls like this helps matters.\u00a0 Perhaps planning authorities should require, as a condition for objecting to a proposed development,\u00a0an\u00a0alternative proposal.\u00a0 This might tend to limit\u00a0these negative mantras.\u00a0 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\u00a0maintaining it, then developers and anti-developers would at least have some basis for discussion.\u00a0 These stonewall battles are time-consuming and destructive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}