I have read this question a few times now and I am still having some trouble eliminating E. The logic seems flawless to me. I annotated it to something like this. If the mayor was interested in helping the economy then he would allocate revenues to the new business park. But! The mayor didn't do tha...

On review of my question i discovered that E went too far. The requirement (of the sort envisioned by the citizens' group) is an exaggeration that the argument doesn't support. It is just a new business park that the group is asking for.