History Main / CommunityThreateningConstruction

* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' where a thinly veiled Walmart {{expy}}, Megalomart builds a huge store in town (though it had been seen since the pilot ep), throwing small independent retailers out of work, leading to veteran former shop-owners manning the sporting goods section and being bossed by teenagers who don't respect their retail or trade skills. It takes Hank Hill and an "accident" with propane gas tanks (thanks to a TooDumbToLive employee named Buckley) to save the day.

Compare GreenAesop, SavingTheOrphanage, RailroadPlot and ChildhoodMemoryDemolitionTeam for similar conflicts, but different victims.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Carlton threatens to have his rich dad bulldoze Elmore Junior High to make a golf course if Gumball and Darwin don't have a tennis match with them.

* The villainous plot in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' which threatens the entire community of Toon Town is the construction of a freeway.

* Much of the plot of ''Film/BatteriesNotIncluded'' revolved around a large corporation's efforts to remove the tenants of a small apartment building so they could build a small skyscraper.

A type of {{conflict}} wherein a new structure threatens a heretofore CloseKnitCommunity, threatening its extinction or way of life. Possibly the work, either overt or covert, of a CorruptCorporateExecutive or a CorruptBureaucrat.

* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' where a thinly veiled Walmart {{expy}} builds a huge mall in town, throwing small independent retailers out of work, leading to veteran former shop-owners manning Walmart concessions and being bossed by teenagers who don't respect their retail or trade skills. It takes Hank Hill and an "accident" with propane gas tanks to save the day.

* ''Film/Tremors3BackToPerfection''. Despite its history of monster attacks the residents of Perfection Valley enjoy its isolation and do not like the idea of it being turned into a larger town, a proposal offed by Melvin, who was a child in Perfection during the original attacks. Eventually the valley is turned into a nature preserve for el Blanco, the sole remaining (sterile) graboid in Perfection.

* ''Series/{{Tremors}}'' continues from the end-point of ''Tremors 3'', in which the residents of Perfection Valley refused to sell their land to be converted to a town and are backed up by the government declaring the area a nature preserve. Many of the episodes revolves around the residents resisting either the government's efforts to drive them out (for the safety of el Blanco, their resident graboid) or Melvin's attempts to buy them out in order to put up a strip mall he calls "Melville" In Episode 1 "Feeding Frenzy" Melvin secretly erects sound-generating devices the stimulate El Blanco's hunger to the point where the graboid becomes very dangerous, and Burt is nearly forced to shoot it. He does this because if El Blanco is killed the valley will no longer have government protection.

* ''Series/{{Tremors}}'' continues from the end-point of ''Film/{{Tremors}} 3'', in which the residents of Perfection Valley refused to sell their land to be converted to a town and are backed up by the government declaring the area a nature preserve. Many of the episodes revolves around the residents resisting either the government's efforts to drive them out (for the safety of el Blanco, their resident graboid) or Melvin's attempts to buy them out in order to put up a strip mall he calls "Melville" In Episode 1 "Feeding Frenzy" Melvin secretly erects sound-generating devices the stimulate El Blanco's hunger to the point where the graboid becomes very dangerous, and Burt is nearly forced to shoot it. He does this because if El Blanco is killed the valley will no longer have government protection.

* The [[http://www.clickonwales.org/2009/08/cofiwch-dryweryn/ Cofiwch Dyweryn]] graffito has commemorated for fifty years the flooding of the Tryweryn Valley for a reservoir.

Another variation is for the community to be located in a valley that's chosen to be dammed and flooded, either for hydroelectric power generation or as a water reservoir for a nearby city.

* This is the backstory of the film ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}''. Before the story starts, the once-vibrant town of Radiator Springs was bypassed by a new interstate, leading to its decline and the events of the film.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Cars}}'': In the backstory of Radiator Springs, the building of the Interstate Highway caused travelers to no longer take Route 66 and so turned the once bustling village into a ghost town. Unlike most examples, though, the residents did nothing to stop it because they mistakenly thought more interstate travelers would mean more visitors.

* ''Film/TremorsBackToPerfection''. Despite its history of monster attacks the residents of Perfection Valley enjoy its isolation and do not like the idea of it being turned into a larger town, a proposal offed by Melvin, who was a child in Perfection during the original attacks. Eventually the valley is turned into a nature preserve for el Blanco, the sole remaining (sterile) graboid in Perfection.

* The villainous plot in ''WesternAnimation/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' which threatens the entire community of Toon Town is the construction of a freeway.

Compare GreenAesop, SavingTheOrphanage, and ChildhoodMemoryDemolitionTeam for similar conflicts, but different victims.

!!Examples

-> ''"People of Earth, your attention, please. This is Prosthetic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. As you no doubt will be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition."''
-->-- '''Prosthetic Vogon Jeltz''', ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''

!Examples

* The villainous plot in ''WesternAnimation/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' threatens the entire community of Toon Town.

* The ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' BigDamnMovie, which has the residents of Arnold's neighbourhood banding together ([[HeelFaceTurn although some later than others]]) to prevent the neighbourhood from being razed and turned into a mall by a CorruptCorporateExecutive. This includes Arnold and Gerald going into a quest to find documents that show that the neighbourhood has historical significance.

-> ''"People of Earth, your attention, please. This is Prosthetic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. As you no doubt will be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your system, and regrettably your planet is one of those scheduled for [[EarthShatteringKaboom demolition]]."''

A type of {{Conflict}} wherein a new structure threatens a heretofore CloseKnitCommunity, threatening its extinction or way of life. Possibly the work, either overt or covert, of a CorruptCorporateExecutive or a CorruptBureaucrat.

* Most of the violent events in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'''s backstory ostensibly stem from a project to build a dam that would have flooded the basin in which the village of Hinamizawa sits.

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* There's a series of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' strips from the 60s (during the height of the Interstate building boom) involving a proposed freeway that would go right through Snoopy's doghouse (insert your own FridgeLogic here). The sequence ends with [[spoiler:the revelation that [[ShaggyDogStory the freeway isn't being built until 1967]]]].

* In the movie ''Used Cars'' the planned freeway ramp doesn't threaten the community but does provide the MacGuffin which the plot revolves around.

* In ''Series/HannahMontana TheMovie'' one of the subplots is a greedy developer attempting to put up a shopping mall in the beloved meadows of Miley's hometown.
* The main source of conflict in the film version ''Theatre/YouCantTakeItWithYou'' involves banker and defense contractor Anthony Kirby buying up all the land around a competitor's factory in order to put him out of business. He is all set to dispossess all the renters in the neighborhood, but he needs to buy the house of CloudCuckoolander Martin Vanderhof, and Martin doesn't want to sell. (This plot element was an addition not found in the source play.)

* In ''Rasco And The Rats Of NIMH'', the construction of a dam threatens to flood the valley that is home to the rats.

* In the GrandFinale of ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' the entire town is bought out by a Japanese company to build a golf course. Dick is the lone holdout, and the course is built around his inn. Smashed windows from errant golf shots are a daily occurrence. Subverted in that in the penultimate scene all the former townsfolk come back for a reunion and they're all much better off.

** It had a special in TheNineties that starred Joe Pesci as a DonaldTrump {{Expy}} who wants to tear down Sesame Street and build his new Grump Tower in its spot; the residents of the Street get together in protest.
** This was recycled in one of ''Series/MadTV'' 's many ''Sesame Street'' parodies, in which Donald Trump himself (actually Frank Caliendo) becomes new best friends with Gordon, and evict the residents of the Street so he can build, "The most lavish, luxurious, opulent, extravagant Starbucks ever known to man."

* ''Videogame/HarvestMoon'' has a couple very similar examples.
** In ''Videogame/HarvestMoon: Save the Homeland'' the plot revolves around your character trying to find one of several paths to stopping the town from becoming an amusement park. These include things like discovering protected animals or finding treasure.
** In ''Videogame/HarvestMoon: Hero of Leaf Valley'' the valley is also under threat of being turned into an amusement park and offers the option of buying the valley outright if you save up enough money. The other methods of saving the valley are all either about making a tourist destination or a nature preserve. Instead of offering multiple paths leading to multiple ending the idea here is to do three or more storylines under one of those paths to succeed in saving the valley.

* This trope was used in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', when Plankton builds a new highway through Jellyfish Fields.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. When Sideshow Bob becomes mayor one of the first things he does is reroute a new freeway to go directly through the Simpson property, seizing their house via eminant domain and forcing them to live under a bridge.
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' introduced Thomas as the Park's newest intern in an episode where the Park was being turned into a new interstate as a revenge plot by [[spoiler:Garrett Bobby Ferguson]] Jr because Mordecai and Rigby were responsible for his father's death.
* In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "No Parking Hare", Bugs has to battle a construction foreman building a freeway where his burrow is. In the end the freeway is built around Bugs' home.

* The episode of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' where a thinly-veiled Walmart {{Expy}} builds a huge mall in town, throwing small independent retailers out of work, leading to veteran former shop-owners manning Walmart concessions and being bossed by teenagers who don't respect their retail or trade skills. It takes Hank Hill and an "accident" with propane gas tanks to save the day.

* The City of Saint Paul had several neighborhoods razed by freeway construction in the late 1950s-early 1960s. Most notably, I-94 was deliberately (or so it was claimed by protestors) through the African-American Rondo community. There is an annual Rondo Days commemoration of the event.
* OlderThanTheyThink: In 64[=CE=] a devastating fire destroyed large parts of Rome. Emperor Nero subsequently built his ''Domus Aurea'' (Golden House) in part of the burned-out area, and [[http://www.ancient.eu/Nero/ some people at the time suspected he ordered the fire to make way for his vast new palace.]] The outcry was such that a scapegoat had to be found, and Nero settled on members of the then-minority sect Christianity.

* In ''Rasco And The Rats Of NIMH'', the construction of a dam threatens to flood the valley that is home to the rats.