re: well that settles it then
As George Carlin once said: "You wouldn't save a jungle, but you'd save a rainforest. And you wouldn't save a swamp, but you'd save a wetlands."
KSC has many thousands of acres of wetlands that would probably have been turned into condos and golf courses for old folks ages ago if the space center didn't exist. I would say that's worth a few rocket launches.