The over-ride of municipal…

The over-ride of municipal planning in the interest of developers will eventually cause the downloading of development costs onto existing land owners. Municipalities need to have complete control over their own developments to allow them to keep property taxes under control.

Forcing communities to accept unwanted and ill-advised developments can be greatly damaging to those communities. Politically, higher property taxes, unwanted development and shattered communities could easily make the current governing party un-electable in the future elections.