Originally Posted by
dynodonn
Just more good land being paved over to further someone's shopping convenience and the use of a personal motor vehicle to get there.
A park, more businesses, homes, or as you said, farmland.
But doesn't a business have a reasonable option of putting in a parking lot if it attracts customers? A park by the way costs the city tax money it doesn't provide tax money. If the farmland is successful it isn't replaced by a walmart. If it isn't then the land has to be used for something. But more to the point that convience brings customers and that pays the bills and provides employment. If it didn't they wouldn't build it.