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By Jim Sack

Money talks and council members listen.  Simple as that.

The parking lot at the city county building last night was unusually filled with Lexus, Mercedes, Audis and the other rolling status symbols of wealth.  Inside the chamber was filling with the well-to-do who were up in arms about a developer planning to building on his, the developer’s land.  The citizens, most representing Cherry Hills, a golf-community on the city’s suburban north side, argued against the office complex that the plan commission had recent approved.  Their rambling arguments were simple: not in my back yard, we were promised verdant vistas forever and the tired saw of traffic problems.  Council members buckled to the will of the people.  Six members publicly stated they would vote against the change.  Done.  So, the sprawlites get their way.  They do not want the owner of the land, a developer, a businessman, a taxpayer, etc, to ruin their view.  These are people who bought land at a premium, they lament, and demand that their semi-rural setting remain same for perpetuity.  No change in my backyard, no progress unless it is progress I approve of.  The mob won.  No pitch forks or torches, mind you, but a mob, the public, taxpayers, involved citizens just the same. The sort of neighborhood “intrusion” into policy making that makes Liz Brown testy.

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