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There's probably under-claimed win-wins between the two groups.
The problem is that the existing institutions for mediating the conflict are extremely high-friction.
eg strawman: have a rule that buildings that are in the top 50 percentile of making neighborhood aesthetics types happy pay 0.1% less property tax, and the rest pay 0.1% more
that would probably get you significantly better aesthetics, with very low cost to efficiency or freedom or dynanism or other good things?
eg strawman 2: keep big pharma but make the incentives favor a much more open-science approach to safety and efficacy verification
you get significantly better public trust, with very low cost to scientists being able to do their thing?