Jay Honeck wrote:

Of course, this would make way for more "affordable" housing -- something we
desperately need...

Actually, the trend here is towards more strip malls. The local governments have
come to the belated conclusion that the cost of enlarging the school system to
handle the kids in those new houses is greater than the taxes on them. Moreover,
parking lots need to be flat.

George Patterson
Love, n.: A form of temporary insanity afflicting the young. It is curable
either by marriage or by removal of the afflicted from the circumstances
under which he incurred the condition. It is sometimes fatal, but more
often to the physician than to the patient.