[adamsb6]

I’m a voter who prefers we establish rules that be followed rather than encumber every project with a lengthy community dialogue.

[starik36]

That's it right there. Rules, not deals.

[ghaff]

The two are often difficult to dissociate. My town had a fairly fractious town meeting around a rezoning proposal that was mostly for a fairly specific commercial purpose--that passed through a basically procedural mechanism in a second meeting.