true.
many cities just “declare” easements and figure everything is legal until a judge says otherwise. The thought is the peons never have enough money for real law suits and if there is one pro se suit, it never goes into class action status.
It is the ford pinto analysis the suits used to calculate the deaths were cheeper than the repairs.
Here in California they had a law ( the brown act i think) thay rural property owners could enter into to save on property taxes. It had reasonable restrictions on future development and a clear path to withdraw. Over the years they have made changes that are quit different from what people originally signed on to. The county has spent big bucks trying to enforce their onesided changes to an entirely different agreement.