I served as an elected Trustee on our Township Board and vice chaired the Planning Commission and Zoning Board. Our township is rural, had state and federal forestland, prairies, quite a few lakes, streams and the Muskegon river. In other words, it was God's Country. We had more gravel roads and two tracks than paved roads. Slowly, over the years many if not most of the recreational properties (seasonal cabins and cottages) started to become primary dwellings for folks from the cities nearby. It was only about a 30 to 40 minute drive to two large metro areas.
So we started to have pressure from these transplants to pave the gravel roads and improve the two tracks, wanting street lighting and sidewalks. Every time a group of them would show up at our township board monthly meetings to ask about that heresy, we'd ask them why they moved here from the city. Uniformly they would always respond about the beauty of the township, the peace and quiet, and all of the outdoor things that could be accessed. Then we'd ask them why did they want to turn the township into the same thing they left behind in the city? And if they liked those sorts of amenities, they were free to move back to the city. Usually got very quiet and they'd leave the meeting.