True," who are the decision makers to get land rezoned? That's a good question. It depends on several things. There are three types of decision makers. So let's just suppose you have a piece of land in town and you want to build a dozen townhomes on it. You got to figure out who's got the power and authority, what hoops you have to jump through, and a lot of people want to know, "Are my neighbors going to have any input?" The first decision maker that you would see is the administrative. So that would be a municipal planning department, town planning department, county planning department, and you go in there and you say, "Hey, this is my parcel, this is what I want to do with it. Can I do this?" And if you're really lucky, you have a piece of land that's already approved for that particular density and you can do townhomes on it. And they say, "Congratulations, Mr. Andrews. This is a townhome zoned property. You have a right, you're allowed to put townhomes on this by right, and here's your permit. Go build your townhomes." And there's no hearing, there's no neighbor input. You get to roll. But let's assume that it's not approved or zoned for that kind of density. Then you're going to go through what is known as a quasi-judicial decision maker. And that would be a county planning board member or a town planning board or a city planning board. And that is really like a court situation. You have to present evidence, you have to show there's some kind of harm or hurt because of the zoning that you have, and you can't just show up and say, "I don't want this over here." Well, the neighbors can say, "I don't want...
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