The way some people vote, or don't is why it's getting worse. There used to be a race track, 1/4, dirt 1/2 mile....then they zoned for housing tracts right up to industrial zones...
There used to be a skate park, Mike McGill skate park near by the track....same thing.now there is a skate park at almost every park...half full of unsavory youth and drugs because there is no memebership, no screening, no filter...and we go from private to public and now we all pay for the hang outs and lawsuits. Developers payoffs..
All the hotels now.. city counsel are money hungry. If crowding the shoreline with hotels brings more tax dollars and permit fees in the millions... they're doing it. If putting parks/skate parks reels in state/gov funding...they do it..and still bill the tax payer for upkeep...as they burden the local tax payer with no parking, pay parking, crowded streets and a massive influx of people who dont belong here and are fish out of water here.
If people keep voting for things that dont make sense or cause future problems...you can expect more city/county code enforcers to come knockin..