Bullied and undermined, planning authorities have been left castrated and toothless, stripped of the skills and power they need to regulate, and sapped of the spatial imagination to actually plan places.
Although the group has not reached consensus on how to come up with more housing subsidies, one thing is clear: With the recession, budget cuts and downturns in local construction and real estate industries, there may be so many interests competing for pieces of a potential housing trust fund that they could undermine plans to pass a ballot measure to pay for it.
Environmentalists and the gas-and-oil industry do not agree on much, but in New York they see eye-to-eye on one thing: both believe that cuts to the state environmental agency's staff will undermine plans for natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, a controversial but potentially huge source of new revenue for the cash-strapped state.
A mining levy could undermine Plan Nord, Mr Charest's ambitious programme to encourage the development of minerals, timber and hydroelectricity in northern Quebec.Jean-François Lisée, a former journalist who won a Montreal constituency for the PQ, brushed aside those difficulties on election night.
This is a kind of economic co-operation agreement originally proposed by Mr Chavez in a bid to undermine plans for a hemispheric Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
Doesn't this undermine plans they might have had to breastfeed?
In a tweet, City Council President Todd Gloria, who supported the measures, decried "money and lies used to undermine planning and democratic processes.
Prices tend to increase when the economic outlook is brighter — potentially creating headaches for consumers and undermining plans by businesses for expansion.
But Mr. Greenspan has also signaled he is worried that a fiscal stimulus package could become an excuse to abandon fiscal discipline, undermining plans to pay down most of the $3.3 trillion national debt over the next decade.
While the popularity of the Early Excellence approach has undermined plans for a national boycott proposed by some teaching unions, the DfE is concerned that it and teacher-led KS1 assessments may not be robust enough to measure progress.
The city officials also publicly invited the F.B.I. to investigate the department -- an invitation that Daniel J. French, then the United States attorney for the Northern District, later said undermined plans for an undercover investigation.
