Question: re: corporations being given development veto authority?

[Earth_First]

I was just reading the land disposition agreement with the City of Rochester and Paetec Communications regarding the development of their new corporate headquarters in downtown Rochester.

The disposition gives Paetec veto authority as to which businesses can surround the new 8-acre facility.

Among the many are these few:

(a) A manufacturing and/or industrial facility.
(b) A warehouse or other storage facility.
(g) An automobile repair and/or body shop operation, gas station or an automobile sales business.
(h) Any schools, colleges, universities or other educational campus or institution exceeding fifty thousand (50,000) gross square feet.
(i) Temporary or permanent surface parking lots.
(j) Medical clinic for non-resident patients which generate substantial pedestrian or other traffic.

Is this standard operating procedure with these agreements or is this something new?

[Earth_First]

1. To add; Grocery and/or convenience/variety retail...

Which, is the BIGGEST complaint among downtown/inner-loop residents ( read: lower income residents) the lack of readily available grocery/pharmacy products....

[KT2000]

2. Looks like a clean sweep

So corporations will be able to control what constitutes a community.
This is currently being done another way too. Our WalMart has a huge piece of land where they located their store. They built stores to lease and that way they can control who surrounds them.
Another way they control communities is when they hold a lease or own a store that is vacated for a new store. They chase off prospective renters that may compete with ther business, with outrageously high rents. Or they leave the store vacant. They get to write it off as a loss on their taxes when in reality they are controlling their environment and making the community look awful.

[Hawkeye-X]

3. Paetec should NEVER get veto authority - here's why:

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-256121.html

I remember the court battle, Paetec won, but still they gave spammers unbridled authority to spam as they please from their network