They ran redevelopment in Coatesville entirely off the rails.

In the Coatesville City Hall Lobby I had a brief conversation with Dick Saha. He was scoping me out on what I thought about City Council. I said I thought he should try to work out some settlement with the City. And that City Council  represents our community  and we could come together as a community. Dick gave a nod to his son Ricky and I was surrounded by about a dozen people shouting "communist" at me. That was in 2004. 

We had  encountered the same sort of anti-government "Property Rights" people in Lower Fredrick Township, Montgomery  County when we proposed the "Perkiomen Trail". They used similar intimation tactics at public meetings. The "Stop the Horse Trail" people got the attention of then Montgomery County DIstrict Attorney Mike Marino when one of them strung a taught wire at neck level in an undeveloped part of the planned Perkiomen Trail.  Later as Montgomery County Commissioner Mike Marino was an instrumental  part of the completion of the Perkiomen Trail. 
SEE:

http://coatesvilledems.blogspot.com/2011/04/are-people-gun-shy-about-building.html?m=0 

I continued the research of "Property Rights" groups that I began in 1996 and found the link between municipal planning commissions, smart growth and the "UN conspiracy". It was a perfect fit to what was happening in Coatesville from 2000 to present day.  

Outside of Coatesville's polling places during the 2005 Elections Patrick Henry Sellers wore his straw hat with tea bags hanging from the rim.  He might have been the inspiration for the present day Tea Party. 

"Indeed, while the UN conspiracy talk makes it easy to dismiss the tea partiers as nutters, that doesn't mean they won't derail local development projects. "

SEE:

Mother Jones

We Don't Need None of That Smart-Growth Communism"

Tea partiers' latest fear: a secret UN plan to herd us all into urban "human habitation zones."

"First, they took on the political establishment in Congress. Now, tea partiers have trained their sights on a new and insidious target: local planning and zoning commissions, which activists believe are carrying out a global conspiracy to trample American liberties and force citizens into Orwellian 'human habitation zones.'

At the root of this plot is the admittedly sinister-sounding Agenda 21, an 18-year-old UN plan to encourage countries to consider the environmental impacts of human development. Tea partiers see Agenda 21 behind everything from a septic tank inspection law in Florida to a plan in Maine to reduce traffic on Route 1. The issue even flared up briefly during the midterms, when Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes accused his Democratic opponent of using a bike-sharing program to convert Denver into a "United Nations Community."

MORE AT:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/11/tea-party-agenda-21-un-sustainable-development