Imo, developers seem to keep making themselves the victim in these situations... i.e. expanding more into an already overcrowded Galloway, or adding additional traffic and sending a middle finger to the entire neighborhood of University Heights. They bulldoze (literally and metaphorically) over the wishes of the people who can make or break their development and are affected most by them, and then they cry foul when people don't support these proposals.

There are so many areas that would benefit from development in Springfield, but they only swarm to places that are already overdeveloped. National/Sunshine has already had multiple storefronts sit vacant since the buildings were constructed; why is putting more of the same there going to be beneficial for anyone? Why do we need more apartments and more traffic in one of the messiest intersections in town? The additions near 65/south of Chestnut seem to be doing well and there is space to grow there, but many developers are still only looking at spaces that aren't practical. I understand concerns about the NIMBY mindset, but I don't see that to be an issue in the controversial development proposals recently; I think their concerns are extremely valid and the developers should've addressed them before doing anything else.