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| Do you really need an example? Has it never occured to you that democracy my lead to abuse of individual rights? Wow.
Anyway. A charming young lady called Shania Twain wanted to buy a pretty house nearby. She wanted to make some alterations to the house (within municapal standards) but by communial vote was turned down. According to her, the alterations were within standards, and within the taste of the area, etc, etc. No reason was given for being turned down.
So here we have a situation where she may have been turned down by the whims of the local population. The sale was cancelled and she has since bought in Blonay.
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After having lived in the same area as John Travolta, I imagine that the not-given-reason was perhaps simply that the community did not want a celebrity in it's midst.
I think that is 100% fair because it is up to the community to decide what sorts of changes they want made within the community - providing the additional infrastructure that most likely would be necessary in order to provide the security necessary not only for Shania Twain's residence but to the town in general due to the myriad issues that could arise.
I bet that if Shania Twain was nobody particular, she would have had no problem.
(BTW... John Travolta wound up getting voted out of his place after he spent a lot of money on it... better for Shania to find someplace welcoming her rather than someplace that did not want her)