Summary

Strategic economic planning starts years prior to actual development. As such, persuasive thought processes are periodically integrated to facilitate through and around governmental and regulatory aspects of local development. This allows a basis for other thought processes to build on this legacy. Individuals that are unaware or not in the loop eventually are faced with uncertainties, conflicts of interest; political, financial, job security and possibly community based ethical issues.

Developers, engineering firms, contractors, businesses and insurance companies may be economically tied together through past and future endeavors. As such, a fraternity of said entities would be hard-pressed to point fingers when issues, unforeseen or designed in, eventually become apparent. Lower rung individuals are faced with the same uncertainties mentioned above.

In addition, lax regulatory oversight creates an environment to look the other way laying the groundwork for businesses to actually see saw or exceed the stature of small and medium sized cities. All the above diminishes the regulatory.

Regulatory Analogy

Maybe regulatory oversight can be expressed in the following story:

Two hours east of Budapest Hungary is a family owned restaurant in the city of Mezokovesd. The restaurant is called Kispipa.

One evening friends Dirk and Gretel, my wife Valerie and I went to the restaurant Kispipa for dinner. On our arrival we found numerous, (intentional), extreme muddy foot prints on the well maintained ceramic floors and the family humbly trying to clean it up. We sat at our table and across from us were four individuals with mud-spattered shoes. Dirk and Gretel were discussing the situation.

My wife and I spoke.

The four individuals with muddy shoes got up, left their table and unfinished dinner, entered their expensive, foreign tagged car and left. I asked Dirk what happened. He told me that the four individuals never expected Germans to be here, yet Americans.

Was the behavior of the four individuals egotism; a sense of privilege, or did they feel untouchable and wanted to demonstrate it.

The owner of the Restaurant apparently felt he could not stop them. The other customers only watched, but did not get involved. However, the unexpected presence of a German and an American couple created unanticipated outside oversight, This abruptly stopped the behavior of the four, and they immediately left.