Pubs should be congenitally allergic to such socialist schemes.
Our town is in a planning process. First suggestion was a bike path linking inner city to wealthier section of town. I blew up the proceedings with the first question: do you intend to use eminent domain for the land needed for the bike path? They freaked and tried to overtalk me; said I was mistaken about the route they had just announced. For each revised route, I asked how they intended to acquire the land. Later newspaper articles said nobody asked questions, nobody objected, eminent domain never came up. Our consultants were from Sustainable Transportation Systems, out of Ithaca, NY (City of Evil). Conflict of interest much?
At some point, our town supervisor jumped up and said “This is going through regardless.” and “We need it for our HUD grant application.”
Elements of UN Agenda 21, global warming, control of private property, Alinsky communications, Delphi training of “facilitators,” and other leftist outrages were obvious to me. If long-range planning is going on in your community, attend, participate, and bring young neighbors. One common rebuttal was that it was a 30 year plan. Implication: the fogies at the meeting would be dead by then.