Originally Posted by
SactoDoug
If they already own the land and are building the parking lot, it is too late. Just get used to it.
Also, that is probably a sign that your local governement has more plans for the area. It might be time to stop by your local planning board and see what they are doing.
Over here, it's all online and open to the public. There has been a recent debate about the city buying some land to STOP it from being developed.
At least over here this is tough because all of the land is essentially used up (whereas last time I was in the Dallas metroplex there were huge land reserves.)
One side is fighting for a new development seen here (quite OK actually):
http://miltonplan.org.uk/wp-content/...s_Final_LR.pdf
The other side wants to save the old buildings:
https://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/im...mage/image.jpg
One compromise would be conversion of the old building into flats which is becoming more common.