....at least according to the Boston Globe.

"Do trash receptacles and sidewalks have an ideology? How about zoning
overlays, watershed development, and tree pruning? These are the kinds of
issues that animate local planning boards, those temples of wonkery and
reheated coffee that produce acronym-laden reports on parochial community
concerns. But to an increasingly vocal group of activists, your local
planning board is in fact a cell of hidden conspiracies to undermine US
freedom and sovereignty and create a system of one-world government."

http://bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/...rJL/story.html

Evidently, according to this author, Chicken Little was right.