The drafting of a Planning Scheme; State, Local and Municipal planning policies, as well as the determination of what land within a municipality gets which zonings, are all undertaken as part of a democratic process. This statement is not an invitation on the relative virtues or not of a democratic system (or our democratic system), it is simply a statement of fact. The Greater Dandenong Planning Scheme is an example of but one of many Planning Schemes state-wide which are part of this land use management and development process, which includes the rights to apply for the development of land in accordance with those democratically developed process, or to object to them through a fair process if one feels aggrieved at what is being proposed or approved.
On art and architecture there are widely divergent, subjective, and often passionately held viewpoints. Just as with the outcomes of a democratic process, which leaves some unhappy with the result.
So, developments have been through the required democratically determined legislation and processes, and found acceptable in a professional assessment and approved in a (democratically elected) political one.
To quote Winston Churchill “No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…”