This is all great and all until you buy a home and it happens to you.

I don't live there and it does affect me, but I am a homeowner and while nothing like this has happened to me, it has happened to a group of homeowners nearby (not as big of a project). I drove by almost daily on the way to and from work. I watched the hell these people were put through during the project and after trying to get the town and the contractors to actually do what they said they'd do and pay for remediation when the project was done.

This is the kind of thing that drive people to purchase property where it is very unlikely anything will ever be built next door, so they don't have to go through this sort of thing.

The location for this project has wetlands. Those people moved there because nothing could possibly be built on those wet lands. Now they found a way to build on the little bit of dry land in that spot. Lexington is huge. They have other places they can put this project in. The reason they do not is because their Lexington neighbors will not allow it to happen on their backyard.