The people who live on a street should have more say over what gets built on it than an investor who has never set foot there. Right now that is backwards. Large real estate developments and industrial-scale projects, including the AI data centers now being pushed into communities like ours, get decided by people who will never live beside them and never feel the traffic, the noise, or the strain on our power grid and our water.Mark Theroux will give neighborhood residents the final say on major new development in their own neighborhoods. That means real notice before decisions are made, not after they are final. It means public hearings scheduled when working people can actually attend. And it means a representative who shows up to those meetings and answers questions in front of the people he represents.Mark has pledged to hold regular, open community meetings so residents can bring concerns directly to him. Pawtucket is a proud, close-knit city, and the people who live here have earned the right to shape what it becomes.