It is neither. They tell me the following represents their thoughts well enough. Apparently all would agree there.
Politicians gauge the appropriateness of their actions by the number and tone of complaints heard.
The more complaints from each extreme the better, the assumption being that they are then toeing the middle line. The middle mediocre being the place they apparently want to be seen. The LRMP process is rooted, now, in some history. That is unfortunate, if it was a new process, and the government was still bumbling along unconcernedly, we might have a chance of getting a local plan without too many restrictions. But not now.