While a hyperbole, the example is TRUE. An example comes from Toronto, where Harbord Village Residents' Association and Seaton Village Residents' Association lobbied to decrease the size of a future development so it "fits into their neighbourhoods." The kicker? The development in question wasn't even IN their neighbourhoods - but in the adjacent Palmerston (not that the Palmerston Residents' Association didn't complain - they did, and they managed to reduce the number of new homes built from 1100 to 800).