Well there you go, without any concrete benefit I can't see how the rezoning is warranted. If a developer gets scared off by a rezoning that failed because the project wasn't beneficial to the city or the neighborhood and was rightly and soundly rejected by both, when the developer knew it was not zoned for the purpose they had in mind when they bought the property, then I am perfectly fine with them taking their money to Nixa, or whatever town wants to support that kind of development at any cost.

You bemoaned the hostility from others in this thread, but then you say things like "lackluster neighborhood," and "Developers will avoid this city like the plague it is and is becoming!" I can see where an attitude like that might very well inspire some "hostility."

Transplants cry around about how locals are so hostile to them while calling Springfield a clusterfuck and implying that "wealthier" Nixa knows better. This is why. People who move here love to tell everyone how backwards and awful Springfield is and how the town should be run like this or that town. Most people from Springfield wouldn't live in Nixa if you paid us, and you'd have to pay us a whole hell of a lot to afford living there.