Nevertheless, from the relocation of Taipei's Lin An-tai traditional family residence, the protests of Sanhsia residents over the fate of the town's old streets, to the pleas by scholars and Lin clan descendants for urban planners to spare the Lin Family Garden in Taichung's Wufeng district, seemingly endless conflicts exist between preservation and development.
不過，從台北市林安泰古厝的搬遷、三峽老街抗爭，到近來台中霧峰林家頤圃，也因為在計畫道路上有被切割危險，學界和林家子孫不得不為其「請命」，請都市計畫手下留情。如此看來，保存和開發之間確實有不少爭議。