Editorial: It is unreasonable for the neighborhoods near Maple Square to claim that the proliferation of convenience stores in their communities, with the attendant increase in traffic and noise, is the result of zoning changes that drove convenience stores out of Maple Square itself. It is a matter of record that none of the operators of the stores that were closed down in the Maple Square have opened convenience stores in the surrounding neighborhoods.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument made in the editorial?
(A) The proprietors of the convenience stores in the Maple Stores tended to spend long hours in their stores and to know many of their regular customers by name.
(B) While some neighborhoods seek to exclude convenience stores because they cause an increase in traffic, others seek to attract them since they provide a service that some consumers want.
(C) The zoning changes did not specifically exclude convenience stores from Maple Square but made it impossible for any store to reserve adjacent parking space exclusively for that store's customers.
(D) Neighborhoods with active and well-organized neighborhood associations tend to be more effective in securing zoning changes than are neighborhoods without such organizations.
(E) Anticipating a market for convenience stores in the area around Maple Square, a national convenience-store chain secured the best store locations when the Maple Sqaure zoning changes were first proposed.