Dear Editor,

There is an unfortunate dynamic in many local and county governments in this country, where real estate developers and construction interests are serving (or, all too often, self-serving) as the elected officials making land use decisions. While these are perfectly honorable professions, not all of their practitioners have noble motivations for public office. While some are no doubt civic-minded, the sheer numbers of them who run probably speaks to the ability of those offices to be ...