I have a friend who needs to fight back against a big home builder, in a big Texas county. She is one of us but can’t post here yet so I’m helping 😁 The meeting is next week and she is preparing/researching. Searching the website showed no opposition to the re-zoning request so she is making sure what she submits shows up as opposition. The homeowners in her neighborhood have banded together and are fighting. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I live in FL and TX and FL are building like crazy to accommodate everyone moving to these 2 states and they are rapidly destroying ranch land In the process. We need to be smarter about development or we won’t be able to grow our food when we don’t have the DS suppressing population growth in the future.
If its anything like zoning where I live, the zoning board is all one family or friends of one family. They get to play "lord" of whatever village, town, city by controlling who gets to build what and where.
If you get on their good graces your odds of success are higher. Oftentimes lining their pockets with cash or favors goes a long way.
Sorry for not having a really good solution, just pointing out the problem.
Local elections are critical.