• They have failed to consider the economic consequence of encouraging, if not enabling, the commencement of high density residential development in Brown Township, which will result in repeated appeals to the community for more tax revenue;
   
• They have allowed themselves to be manipulated by the City of Hilliard, who very much desires the high school to be placed within the boundaries of the City so as to enable the collection of income tax revenue from the employees of the school -- even though there are better sites available outside the City of Hilliard but within the area bounded by the School District  (note -- this is obviously of interest, as the school system prepared a report indicating which municipalities received income tax revenue from the employees of each school);
   
• They have allowed themselves to be manipulated by residential development interests who own most of the property around the Emmelhainz farm site (those developers plan to use the expedited annexation process to overcome their objections to the Brown Township Comprehensive Plan and the recommendations of the Big Darby Accord);
   
• They allow themselves to be victimized by other government agencies rather than demanding a role as a participant to the community policymaking process;
   
• They have ignored the legitimate and revolutionary comprehensive land use planning effort called the Big Darby Accord, which involved the county government, three city governments, and six townships/villages, all of whom have been working cooperatively for several years to create a unified vision for the development of the Big Darby Watershed.

One of the most important question to ask is: WHY HAVE THEY BEHAVED THIS WAY?

Here is my theory...