Maybe that's happening in your neighborhood; in which case, good for you. But it's not happening here. Development isn't magic; government has to actually care and have a plan. My local government is basically an old-school political machine that's at best malignantly neglectful when they're not trying to exploit their only cash cow for …
Maybe that's happening in your neighborhood; in which case, good for you. But it's not happening here. Development isn't magic; government has to actually care and have a plan. My local government is basically an old-school political machine that's at best malignantly neglectful when they're not trying to exploit their only cash cow for the next mega-deal.
And I say all that as someone who deeply wishes they WOULD develop the area well, because it has SO much potential.
So, maybe be less hostile to those of us who aren't lucky enough to live in well-governed places?
The government may not have *forced* them to build a Publix, but it sure didn't get in their way. There are plenty of ways to skin a cat.
The problem up here in CT is that there are already tons of stakeholders with their hands in various cookie jars. They use government as a weapon to keep competition out of their jar. I'm not making this shit up; municipal corruption practically happens out in the open -- our PD, for instance, rakes in humanly impossible amounts of "overtime" from private contractors under a city mandate for all roadwork to have an officer "directing traffic", which usually just means "playing cellphone games while they sit in a city squad car".
Just because this doesn't sound familiar to you or is unrecognizable doesn't mean it isn't happening.
Maybe that's happening in your neighborhood; in which case, good for you. But it's not happening here. Development isn't magic; government has to actually care and have a plan. My local government is basically an old-school political machine that's at best malignantly neglectful when they're not trying to exploit their only cash cow for the next mega-deal.
And I say all that as someone who deeply wishes they WOULD develop the area well, because it has SO much potential.
So, maybe be less hostile to those of us who aren't lucky enough to live in well-governed places?
At no point did they government force them to build a Publix; they just did it because it’s good for residents and good for the developer.
It’s Alabama, the government is completely hands-off.
The government may not have *forced* them to build a Publix, but it sure didn't get in their way. There are plenty of ways to skin a cat.
The problem up here in CT is that there are already tons of stakeholders with their hands in various cookie jars. They use government as a weapon to keep competition out of their jar. I'm not making this shit up; municipal corruption practically happens out in the open -- our PD, for instance, rakes in humanly impossible amounts of "overtime" from private contractors under a city mandate for all roadwork to have an officer "directing traffic", which usually just means "playing cellphone games while they sit in a city squad car".
Just because this doesn't sound familiar to you or is unrecognizable doesn't mean it isn't happening.