[1rudeboy]

I also get my dental work at a quality office and not a clinic mill. Prices are higher but the staff isn't stressed out by having to run volume to compensate for small profit margin, and they can take the time to do it right.

In other words, you are willing to pay for better service. Yet here the issue is really your argument why people shouldn't favor a place that sells Folger's for $7.99 a can over one that sells Folger's for $12.99.

[Amagi]

Product is only part of the equation.
Actually the bigger issue is that I personally value the service that people personally invested in their small businesses provide.
Funny, I know, kind of old fashioned Americana, but that's just me. I hope that's not passé yet or outlawed.

But we're getting away from the point, aren't we?
The issue here is a community that invested in homes and businesses and now they face possibility of the rules (rezoning) being changed on them after the fact in a way that they don't want.
It's a basic issue of fairness and who was there first, I think.
Why should they be forced to chose between picking up roots or living under circumstances that they didn't buy into?