The city I come from is 1000x cooler than Thousand Oaks.
And I've seen developers come in heavy over the past 20 years, throwing their money around and just trying to make a buck of the place, but really all they do is just make a muck of it. They don't really care about the city's character or its valuable aspects that should be preserved. As far as they're concerned, all that shit can go to the wayside...
Build a huge hotel on the side of a bluff (that residents have been fighting against for at least three decades)? Sure go ahead! Does it matter that the jackhammer-explosion construction may be fast-tracking the erosion of the unstable bluff, contributing to collapses? Nope! Nothing to see here!
Raise the rent and force the eviction of two longstanding local businesses? Why not?! Tell us you're doing it to raze the building and build affordable housing? Okay, well, I guess that's different! Oh, shit, something happened and you're gonna now keep the building but just put a fancy, expensive restaurant in there? Guess that's how it goes!
Buy out a longstanding local bar/restaurant that has been in the community for decades in a building that resembles a pirate ship then submit plans to raze it and architecture designs that look like a two story hospital cafeteria? Let's do this shit!
That's just the tip of the iceberg and a lot of this crap gets pushed through because you get development-hungry pushovers like Mikey Taylor in significant roles such as City Councilmembers.
Guy doesn't even have the integrity to take the blame for rear-ending someone getting of the freeway and you expect him to stand up to detrimental forces in your community?