Planning can be dangerous. Planning Magazine editor Ruth Knack investigates the increasing danger of plan rage.
Is planning rage a new phenomenon? A growing one? What are its causes? Are the current targets different from the old ones? What are the best ways of dealing with an angry public? We asked a variety of experts for their opinions... "I do think there's more anger than when I started out 45 years ago," says planning consultant Paul Zucker, FAICP, president of Zucker Systems in San Diego. "Maybe it's just the difference in the income level of the communities I worked in at the beginning of my career and those I mostly work in now. I would guess the higher the income, the more the rage. Or maybe people just have more time to complain."
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