Water Tower Place

So last night I had set up a meeting with the city to see if, I could developed a small track of land into some rental units. There were 5 home owners that join the property. Needless to say all 5 showed up to to tell me not to build on the open ground. What I cant understand is the growth happens because people move to a area , than how come these home owners want to stop growth in there own backyard, the comments made during the meeting they asked for me to build somewhere else, The home owners asked me to build a grocery store on the north side of town,  In order for a grocery store to even happen the head count has to increase before one will come.  It was if they were only concern with themselves, I do understand the concern with the water run off with the lot, but all that would be taken care of with the detention pond. They were wondering why the south side of O'Fallon gets all the new stores.... Well folks it because out of 70K people 65K people live south of hwy 70. Needless to say that is why there are 5 grocery stores there. I am going to work to smooth over the home owners with this project, and see if i can get 12 units on this ground. Belive me I am not saying that my little 12 unit project will bring a store on the north side of town, but every little house does help get it closer to happening. This would also employ alot of local Union trades man in the area. We need to look out side the box and realize that these small projects like this in O'Fallon are whats going to keep the economy in O'Fallon moving forward and not backwards where the government has to start taxing more... .