Land Bank: Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater

"I'm also concerned by the inability of our chamber of commerce to know the difference between 'affecting' and 'effecting.' Anyway, while I'm concerned by the individual councilmember veto, it's hard to deny this would be much better than the current system. And frustratingly, complaints about the new system (as evidenced by the two links above) do not provide a reasonable alternative in any detail. Nevermind that the "Show-Me Institute" is a libertarian economic think tank. Centralizing control over publicly owned vacant land generally helps rationalize a system, something we clearly need. There are certainly tweaks that should be made to it (like safeguards against pay-to-play)...but that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater." —guest #1 [Maria Explains It All to You: What the Heck Is a Land Bank?]