[throwawaylinux]

Corporations lobby to back and influence local government to rubber-stamp their plans without requiring the necessary services and infrastructure to be in place or paid for.

Don't try to put it in the voters' lap.

[Tyrek]

if only local government and voters had agency to oppose such influences.

[throwawaylinux]

They do, and the process is not always robust enough to counter corporate lobbying and political corruption.

[swexbe]

"Stop hitting yourself"