Planners by nature tend to love what they do (more often than not anyway), but sometimes things can get tough:

• A controversial proposal can bring a roomful of upset residents to a public hearing;
• A looming project deadline can require very long days that extend into the wee hours; or
• A bad day at the office brings five new variance petitions, ten irate ‘customers’ to the service counter, and two angry phone calls from your boss.

Now those are just some hypothetical examples of events that could upset a planner’s day.  Here is the story of a real-life circumstance of one Charlotte, NC area planner “ripped from the headlines“…

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