Can anyone cite an example in which NIMBY policies have worked?
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Anonymous
| There seem to be a lot of people who advocate complete moratoriums on increasing density and construction (including of things like schools, retirement homes and grocery stores). But these just seems to lead to unaffordable neighborhoods with dying retail. Are they any good examples of NIMBY success stories? |
Anonymous
| Our neighbors managed to stall the purple line for almost 5 years. We fought as hard as we could using every tool available to us. They might win in the end, but we got five extra years of peace and quiet on our street. So that’s something. |
Anonymous
A pyrrhic victory, if there ever was one. |
Anonymous
Pyrrhic or not, we haven’t had trains rumbling by our house for years longer than we otherwise would have. So there. |
Anonymous
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IDK if this counts as NIMBY in the way you are asking, but Takoma Park fought hard against putting a highway right through the city, and won.
Fighting against Hogan's 270 and Beltway expansion is working so far. Induced demand is bad, more lanes will equal more cars. Opposing development in the Ag reserve has protected farmers and decreases emissions from reducing long-distance transit of crops and feeds. Marc Elrich opposing the Long Branch Sector Plan keeps immigrant families in their homes. At a national level - do you think Native Americans opposing DAPL was NIMBYism? At a global level, any case where indigenous people defended their land against colonialist and corporate development, as few of those victories their have been, can be counted as an environmental and social justice success. There is a moral case against BAD development. |
Anonymous
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Elizabeth Hartwell helped lead efforts to stop the Outer Beltway from being built through Mason Neck in Fairfax County in the 1960s as well as the creation of a planned community similar to Reston on Mason Neck.
https://www.fxva.com/blog/post/herstory-masonneck/ |
Anonymous
And you've exposed yourselves as intransigent, shortsighted busybodies objecting in bad faith. Congrats, I guess. |
Anonymous
Your neighbors cost MD taxpayers billions and billions, so that's something. |
Anonymous
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"I don't want it ever because I think it's a bad thing" is not NIMBY
NIMBY means I want it but build it by someone else. Hypocritical. |
Anonymous
Yeah sure, b***h. 
When the state says they’re going to put a railroad 50 feet from your bedroom you’d do the same thing we did. Go self-fornicate. |
Anonymous
| NIMBY policies aren’t a real thing. The power of NIMBYs to stop even a single housing development is overstated by YIMBYs to cover up the failures of their policies. |
Anonymous
DP here. You mean the railroad they wanted to put on top of what used to be a ... railroad? Hardly a surprise. |
Anonymous
Not to mention an electric tram is hardly a “railroad” |
Anonymous
| I don't think this is what you are asking for, but I live near an exurb/semi-rural area which is dominated by NIMBYs. Almost every new construction project is met with vigorous protests by community leaders. Similar to what research finds, this NIMBY coalition appears to be spearheaded by a loose coalition of Democrats and Republicans. In this case, the Dems appear to be aging green environmentalists and the Rs appear to be family oriented church-goers. This community is triangulated by three major job centers and retail locations so there is little desire to grow the community as residents travel to one of the neighboring towns for jobs and services. |
Anonymous
| Are not urban growth boundaries like the Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve NIMBYism? |