[Tiktaalik]

The problem is which locals end up being those that dominate the deciding.

What we've seen happen over the decades is that those with the most amount of time and money available end up drowning out the voices of others, as they have more time to devote.

So inevitably older, wealthy, established interests end up dominating the discussion as younger, marginalized, working class people are too busy just trying to get by to engage in local planning.

Accordingly the local consultative process ends up favouring the older wealthy and established land owning locals and not the marginalized working renter class locals.