I may be in the minority here, and this may be naïvety on my part, but to borrow a quote from The Hunt for Red October the City Council doesn't take a dump without a plan.
That being said, I would find it difficult to believe that the developers of Brookshires, et al just showed up one day and started digging without any idea how it was going to come together, with the end result being a surprise: "Hey look, it worked!"
Now I'm not in the industry but my understanding is that projects of this scope are usually performed in stages. That is to say, we're simply looking at the groundwork for future growth. So while it doesn't make a whole lot of sense now, it would make less sense in the finished product if it were missing later.
Please don't confuse this with poor-planning or bad engineering. Those things happen too and this could absolutely play a part there, but I simply refuse to believe that some people just happened to congregate together, started playing grab-ass with each other, and the end result was a grocery store and a school leaving the rest of us wondering, "Wow, how'd that happen?"
I've been to the City Council meetings and the P&Z meetings and in them they sometimes unroll these magnificent scrolls of FUTURE ANNA and its a massive, impressive infrastructure. Everything has a place and a place for everything. One of the more fascinationg aspects of it for me is how everything is interconnected. Almost like massive, above-ground transparent transport tubes. Everything goes everywhere. When I see that, it reminds me that although I'm not involved in that aspect of the growth of our fair city, that growth will come without any intervention on my part whether I want it to or not, and our leaders are ensuring we'll be ready.
