All my support etc. for this issue.
Quick question though - have the residents not seen sense and changed their position by now?
I can kind of see them, in the first place, hoping that the issue would go away or be built elsewhere, hence saw that as reason to have a little winge/object. Now it is clear that in doing so it makes them look like right selfish a-holes as their objections have no grounds, I would have thought that they would have caved in to the pressure by now. This assumes they have some feeling for the wider/greater need of others of course - I assume some do, even ones that at first thought complaining was an 'OK' thing to do and wouldn't hurt anyone. Some of them must be having second thoughts, no?