I was thinking what a crushing blow it would be to the organization if the Warwick project was stalled or held up in court. Many times a project will run into legal challenges over environmental issues or a lack of planning on the social-traffic- air quality - noise impacts. Political pressure on the council also can create headaches for the project proponents.
I saw a community once that had an Indian Casino planned. The council approved the plans but once the community got wind of the real impacts they went nuts. There were advocate groups, signs on plywood on trucks, mailers, commercials and a whole host of oppositional town meetings in an effort to stop it. The council had already made their decision and legally the project could continue. However the organized opposition of the community created such an environment that the Casino developer said screw it and built in another community.
The community arguments were....
no tax benefit to the community
increased traffic and noise
exta demands on police fire garbage schools and roads without revenue to ssupport
negative branding of the community as "the place with the casino"
damage to the environment, yellow belly garter snake butterflies
fear of an undesirable element corrupting children
Imagine the psycological impact it would be to the bus loads of volunter workers if they saw signs protesting the development. Imagine the bad press generated by a political firestorm of opposition against this project. Imagine the pain to the society reputationally and financially if they have to find another site.
projects like this have been stopped before