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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's happened to the Cleveland Park - what do we call them? NIMBYs? Ruling class? They were a force to be reckoned with back in the day. Now they are losing everything they would have won a decade ago. I guess either the times they are a changin, or maybe it's that they never had any organized pushback like they have now. This whole thread - the lashing out and attacks - they've become a bit of a spectacle.  And not just here. There was that nutty lady at the council redistricting hearing talking about dark money. And the signs that reminded everyone of "stop the steal." It's all just very sad.

It seems like the same 15 or 20 people that have been around forever. Where's the next generation of CP anti-change people?[/quote]

Same in Foxhall Village, which also pitched a fit about the new maps.

Here's the historical context: DC's population hit its all-time high in 1950. It declined steadily for 50 years, hitting a modern low in 2000. Only in the past ten years has it begun growing quickly, adding about a thousand residents a month for the past 120 months.

When the city was shrinking, it was easy to accommodate NIMBY's, because there always was "somewhere else" that you could build things, because people were fleeing the city. The playbook started to change ten years ago, with growing population we need more public infrastructure and the choices about where to put it are more constrained. Yet the old guard NIMBY's don't realize things have changed, they mash the same buttons and wonder why they don't get the same results, like a couch potato whose remote has dead batteries. [/quote]

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