It's very important to be able to have feedback mechanisms in anything that we do. To me, again, that's the power of citizen science. It's people who live there every day, who are providing their observations and making them available. The opportunity is to build a structure, and citizen science is a mechanism to do that, that can allow people to connect in this way.
When you don't do that, my perspective is that it can lead to distrust. It can lead to people not understanding why policies are being enacted, and maybe even at the very best, if you don't take into account the data different people have, you might have suboptimal results.