While the law may have been passed legally, it raised serious questions about the broader implications of this type of influence. After all, not everyone has the means to lobby for such favorable treatment.

No shit. We need to stop agreeing to call this sort of thing Legal or we need to drop any affiliation between Legal and Just/Fair. The legal system is a corrupt, and therefore antiquated, system in the US.

ALSO, just because I was curious, the article doesn’t say where the sewage is going right now. Usually you wouldn’t construct houses with nowhere for the sewage to go so minimally it would be going into some sort of septic tank? Aren’t they living there already?