Ms. Hill told the judge that several factors had conspired to discourage potential developers.

To discourage large-scale developers from taking part, rehabilitation projects with more than 100 apartments will not qualify.

The previous board, he said, had discouraged developers with delays and a lack of coordination among agencies.

This might be a large enough risk to discourage developers.

He added that the garbage-transfer operation would not discourage developers from investing in the neighborhood.

"This discourages new developers from entering the market and expanding the capacity of the city to produce housing."

This, of course, discouraged developers from pursuing their plans.

Rosen notes that the incident may discourage developers from releasing their source in the future.

Doing so introduces delays that make tests run slowly and discourage developers from running the whole suite.

The environmental laws, known as Act 250, required such a long review process that they discouraged poorly capitalized developers.