Well, politics do play into architecture and development to some extent. Development used to be a Republican free market thing, but with the advent of new urbanism and housing shortages nationwide walloping the poor and middle class with high costs, it's become more of a Democrat thing. Although I've noticed some of the older politicians are slow to catch on. I relayed to a local democrat running for office here that her very prominent NIMBYism was hurting her standing with the "liberals" she wants voting for her.