When James Earl Jones in “Field of Dreams” said, “Build it they will come,” he implied that an attraction to the good old baseball days was something to cherish — but then the fans went home. They didn’t cut down the corn fields to build massive homes to live in a few months out of the year, make mountain bike, pedestrian, dog contested trails, make taxpayers obligated to pay for expanded recreational and high end school athletic facilities (more pickleball courts, really?!), add another grocery store to the existing five, leash your dog at the point of a gun, provide free, fossil fuel-burning transportation and allow ever so many building code variances for developers and home builders.
