The Developers' Friends

The Mayor of my hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, the Metro Council, and the Zoning Appeals Board are all handmaidens to those who come in with deep pockets and intentions to build expensive projects that completely alter the character of neighborhoods and that almost all the residents already living there oppose. The Mayor and most Council members talk a class envy game that they are all for the "little man", then in the event, they turn multimillionaire developers, almost exclusively from places far distant from Music City, into billionaires while ignoring the will of the voters who elected them.