People care about their local things. Try closing an elementary school / hospital / bus route / park (especially to allow for a for-profit project) and telling people that there’s another one two miles down the road and that they’re not going to live in a desert. Guaranteed pushback. Not surprising.
John Nemeth
I have a perverse fascination with this genre of article. Based on some of the quotes, you'd think that Rockridge without a Trader Joe's is going to be a food desert, instead of a wealthy neighborhood with multiple other superior grocery stores. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
“This Trader Joe’s is a neighborhood institution and it would be a shame to replace it with an eyesore,” said one customer of the store in Oakland’s Rockridge neighborhood.
