When the 1 percent become NIMBYs
From affordable housing to density to bike lanes to public transit, Salon's Will Doig offers an interesting view on how privilege often leads to NIMBYism and roadblocks community progress and sound public policy. Excerpt: "From bike lanes in Brooklyn to desperately needed housing in D.C., public micromanagement has become such a problem that several cities are now trying to rein in the Not-In-My-Backyard crowd. “The current process does not work for anyone,” one urban design expert told the San Francisco Chronicle. “We want the Planning Commission to focus on big planning issues, not micro-design issues.” How tiny bands of refuseniks and wealthy obstructionists absorbed so much power provides instructive lessons for how they might be stopped." Read the rest of the story here.
From affordable housing to density to bike lanes to public transit, Salon’s Will Doig offers an interesting view on how privilege often leads to NIMBYism and roadblocks community progress and sound public policy.
Excerpt:
“From bike lanes in Brooklyn to desperately needed housing in D.C., public micromanagement has become such a problem that several cities are now trying to rein in the Not-In-My-Backyard crowd. “The current process does not work for anyone,” one urban design expert told the San Francisco Chronicle. “We want the Planning Commission to focus on big planning issues, not micro-design issues.”
How tiny bands of refuseniks and wealthy obstructionists absorbed so much power provides instructive lessons for how they might be stopped.”
Read the rest of the story here.
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