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Is anyone here a NIMBY and proud and have a rational reason for ...


Is anyone here a NIMBY and proud and have a rational reason for ...

I live in a serious NIMBY neighborhood in Southern California. Like, hoo boy, we're doing a wine-and-cheese fundraiser to hire a lobbying firm to stop the city ...

A NIMBY, and Proud of It - Medium

So, it turns out that these people labeled NIMBY's actually want a lot of good stuff in their backyard that would enhance quality of life for ...

A NIMBY, and Proud of It! - LinkedIn

No rational person wants that kind of economic extraction to happen in their neighborhood. It just makes it more difficult for residents to get ...

NIMBYs are Right, Development is Terrible - Strong Towns

Particular developments are often bad ideas and merit opposition. NIMBYism is almost never opposing developments for the right reasons. NIMBY ...

I'm proud to be a nimby. For the environment's sake, we all should be

Who isn't? And why should the charge be so grave? The truth is that when it comes to "the environment" we are all obliged to be nimbys, or ...

What is something that's actually reasonable to be a nimby about?

NIMBY, an acronym that stands for Not In My Back Yard, is used to characterize the opposition of residents to a proposed development plan in ...

Is Strong Towns NIMBY, YIMBY, or What?

... and claim we are anti-development NIMBY. Yet, NIMBYs hate us because we insist neighborhood evolve, adapt, and change. What's going on here?

The Theory Behind NIMBYism | Planetizen Blogs

Probably from the perfectly reasonable idea that people are affected by "externalities" arising from how others used nearby property. At one ...

A field guide to NIMBYism - Greater Greater Washington

I am a proud NIMBY. I fought hard against the road in Klingle Valley and I am prepared to continue that fight if needed. Although for me that ...

Margolis: NIMBY here, there and everywhere - VTDigger

No sooner would someone oppose a new highway, a collection of wind towers, a noisy new airplane, or a garbage dump within sight or sound (or ...

The NIMBY Lie - Our Earth/Ourselves

If we understand the NIMBY lie, we won't buy clothes made by workers who live under conditions we would not accept for ourselves because we ...

Guide to Recognizing NIMBY Behavior - Liveable Kirkland

While some concerns may be valid, others stem from a "Not In My Back Yard" (NIMBY) mindset. Dealing with this can be very frustrating, but labeling someone a ...

Editorial: IMBY not NIMBY - Rutland Herald

NIMBY is almost always rooted in a crisis of conscience. We want more property tax revenue, but we don't want to look at development.

Twilight of the NIMBY - The New York Times

NIMBY stands for “Not in my backyard,” an acronym that proliferated in the early 1980s to describe neighbors who fight nearby development, ...

NIMBY's Are Alive And Well In The GTA! | Toronto Realty Blog

They're proud NIMBYS. This is what “NIMBY pride” looks like. It's a bunch of people posing for a photo, completely fine with having their name, ...

How Should We Understand NIMBYism? - Justice Everywhere

Defenders of restrictive zoning often are called NIMBYs, for Not In My Backyard; reformers are then called YIMBYs, for Yes In My Backyard. As ...

The limitations of the NIMBY concept for understanding public ...

It is here that uncritical assumptions of NIMBYism are most prevalent; however empirical work indicates the range of concerns and motives for opposition which ...

(PDF) NIMBY and the civic good - ResearchGate

However, environmental policy scholars have begun to rethink the NIMBY syndrome, arguing that the concept is authority-centered and reduces land-use disputes to ...

NIMBYism as a barrier to housing and social mix in San Francisco

Our hypothesis is that NIMBYism is a key factor that undermines social mix in San Francisco. The NIMBY phenomenon has been discussed in planning literature for ...

YIMBY vs. NIMBY in New York City: Why the real answer is 'maybe'

TheThe acronym NIMBY, meaning “not in my backyard,” and its opposite, YIMBY, for “yes in my backyard,” entered the lexicon sometime in the ...