community opposition

No more than a week ago and straight from Occasional Muse, I posted some of the dirty tricks that some developers use to avoid public scrutiny and feedback on their proposed developments. Here was one of the first developer strategies the Muse relayed:

All of you pro-developer journalists and political communications types at the Metro Courthouse take note. Carol McCullough has an outstanding list of dirty tricks used by developers (and the politicians who love them) to supress citizen participation in the planning process.

While the fight over development in and planning of rural Bells Bend continues, it is worth noting that developers of the proposed May Town Center have now found a way to propose more green space buffers, to set up a fund for land preservation, and to move the proposed bridge away from protesting Charlotte Park neighborhoods

This is disturbing:

About a fifth of Arkansas teachers teach straight evolution, while another 30 percent teach “something along those lines,” according to a survey by state education officials. The other 50 percent don’t teach it, either because of their own weaknesses or community opposition. About 10 percent teach straight creationism.