Community Values and Land Use Decisions

http://www.scu.edu/ethics-center/ethicsblog/herhonor.cfm?c=10855
Author: Nadler, Judy
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Year: 2011

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Abstract:

With unemployment at an all-time high and 50 percent of the downtown shops vacant, Tony Pell, mayor of Weldon, had been working with a regional business-development agency to revitalize what most locals called “the dead downtown.” So when a restaurant chain inquired about opening at the location of a closed steak house, the good news spread fast.

But as soon as identity of the restaurant was revealed, the celebration ended. “Why would be want to welcome ‘Cahoots’ to our town?” asked the president of the Chamber of Commerce. “I don’t want to say no to any new business, but a restaurant that looks and feels more like a Las Vegas casino is not what we want in our town.”