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the importance of preserving trees and open land and rural character, while at the same time encouraging economic growth.
He presented two choices or, two brands of development: either visually attractive or glaringly ugly. Mr. McMahon said “that growth is inevitable,” that we were going to have a McDonald’s, and “there’s nothing you can do to stop it.”
I wonder about all this, whether these are the only choices available to us. I certainly wouldn’t care to see a McDonald’s in any form, no matter how it was “prettied up” and disguised to look like something more palatable. Over and over I heard Mr. McMahon emphasize the “look” of things, of preserving
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