• hobovision@mander.xyz
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    8 days ago

    Another lying headline. You all will up vote anything that makes you mad without reading it or thinking critically at all.

    • Residents didn’t vote on this, the town board did
    • The town board was sued by the developers
    • The developers were likely to win so the town settled and got some concessions from the developer
    • plz1@sh.itjust.works
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      8 days ago

      I mean, it’s shady for headlines, but it’s not false. The board are residents, and the did vote it down. Then they “settled” and I’m betting it was a pittance compared to the data center value. In reality, it was probably a situation where whomever was backing the data center said to throw lawyers and/or money at the problem until it went away.

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      8 days ago

      This is literally then one case where the slowness of the courts could have worked for the people. Even if the town lost after years of litigation, so what. They would have moved it elsewhere in the meantime. But someone got bribed to drop the lawsuit.

    • PodPerson@lemmy.zip
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      7 days ago

      Yep - clickbait headline. I’d be against these as much as the next person, but the article itself said (after it’s clickbait headline) that the township settled. Lawsuits back and forth on both sides, but the township accepted a deal, so it wasn’t like everyone said “no” and then they went ahead and built anyway.