HELP! Give us your opinion on protecting settlement identity?

[Xaviien]

@james

The buffer proposal includes details for giving plotting permissions and fully disabling the buffer zone:

@james

We would also add the following complementary features:

1. Plotting permission: We will add a new beacon permission which allows a friend to plot in your protected perimeter. If your protection perimeter overlaps with another player they would need to give you permission to plot within this doubly protected region. If you were to remove the permission they would no longer be able to claim new plots, but they wouldn’t lose the plots they already have. (And they’d still be able to claim vertically.)
2. Disable the perimeter: For players who want to build Settlements and roads and infrastructure they will be able to disable the protection perimeter on their beacon. This would be equivalent to giving all players permission to plot in their perimeter.

But does that mean each and every player that has a beacon in a settlement needs to disable the perimeter to allow cities/malls etc as they are now?