Sentences with phrase «nimbys many»

This is legal, as the minimum setback in Ontario has been legislated to 550 m. Legal does not make it right and it does not make it healthy; and yes we are NIMBYs but, as we learned, with far more reason than simple esthetics.

Better we have a living city with a couple of less - than - perfect buildings, than a stifled one governed by nostalgists and Nimbys.

I guess the world will always be plagued by dinosaurs and nimbys and no matter what you try someone somewhere will object so I guess the saner amongst us will just have to put up with it.

The NIMBYs will have a field day with that.

They say they do it faster, but have no control over the approval process, the NIMBYs, the parking requirements that put four floors of concrete construction underneath their efficient and fast buildings.

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Last year, Felix Salmon complained that development is being stifled by «nostalgists and NIMBYs.»

In America, everyone from David Owen to Edward Glaeser to Ryan Avent to Matt Yglesias to Alex Steffen say that zoning restrictions, NIMBYs and historic preservationists are preventing development that would make housing affordable and economies boom.

The mostly highly publicized offshore wind farm in the U.S. is undoubtedly Cape Wind, which was finally approved for construction in Cape Cod after a decade - long battle and the protestations of wealthy NIMBYs and grumpy Kennedys.

With local refusal rates at 33 % and getting worse and nimbys getting worse turning to voilence, intimidation, arson and vandalism, met masts chopped down etc, - marshland st james etc) huge planning delays (4 yeas is becoming the norm) and M.O.D playing political games for more funding by objecting at the last minute, the planning system is massively holding the industry up and not giving the certainty to developers to invest in new plant production, resulting in the mess we have now.

I certainly don't want to become dependent on French electricity — in my view reducing our trade deficit is more important than appeasing NIMBYs.

The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys.

There will always be NIMBYs that can't be reasoned with, but give members of a community more say and more to gain from such projects and you make champions out of opponents.

Nuclear — Environmentalists aligning with NIMBYs to prevent new sites from getting off the ground near where they live.

Biomass Energy — Environmentalists aligning with NIMBYs to prevent new sites from getting off the ground near where they live.

Of course, by keeping them separate & difficult to collate the government can hope that attention will be deflected by the vocal nimbys objecting to the renewable industry.

Just like here in Oz so called research which is not unbiased and independent where a sociologist tells everyone we are NIMBYs, or have the «nocebo» effect or are mental.

British Wind Turbines at sea (No Nimbys) the Generators 300 foot high are Air cooled.

Then, when people didn't like that idea they could have countered with a dramatically scaled back half - measure of a protected bike lane and improved pedestrian safety redesign of Clinton Ave.. It'd have been so mundane and low - key compared to the highly disruptive plan on Vanderbilt that maybe, just maybe, all the NIMBYs would have gone for it.

The US could do it, but the free market folk and the NIMBYs would never allow it.

When you hear that wind opposition is all about NIMBYs, think about the above points, and then reflect on what NIMBY really means: The Next Idiot Might Be You.

The Bronx NIMBYs went nuts when it was proposed that a water filtration plant be built in a park.

All the smart young economists and urban writers (most of whom live in New York, Toronto, San Francisco and Washington) are piling on to Ed Glaeser's thesis that we have to roll back zoning regulations, get rid of the NIMBYs and the preservationists and let a thousand towers bloom.

This weekend we read of yet another group of NIMBYs objecting to a wind farm on Georgian Bay north of Toronto.

Our problem is that every windmill and hydro is opposed by NIMBYs who somehow believe that turning appliances off standby and using CFLs is enough.

The real problem in the MacKay analysis is NIMBYs and Naysayers.

Natural gas peaker plants are expensive and controversial; you want them near the user, but the NIMBYs come out in force.

NIMBYs rail against big box retailers setting up on the edge of town, but in the end just can't help but shop there («just for the basics», you know...).

The parish pump and its NIMBYs will have triumphed, but the power to work it will cost the earth.

They are easy to dismiss, are NIMBYs.

«This is just the state fucking with the city,» said one residential developer who is not involved in the project, arguing that the state withholding support for the project made it easier for local NIMBYs to challenge it.

Forget Nimbys.

Personally, I don't have a problem with Nimbys.

«Nimbys», he called them: Not In My Back Yard.

So, stop knocking Nimbys, or even Imvis.

In one paragraph, Toynbee talks of «conservative Nimbys who faced having the new line plough through their Chiltern estates».

They are the nimbys — the «not in my back yards».

Neither can we see through the eyes of people who are following an idea, blindly, nor even Nimbys.

Without any other area worldwide been able to break the inefficient high tax nimby cartel and undercut California productivity, wages, and home prices?

Will high tax enviro - nimby California always be able to extract ever larger sums for housing just because it's the electronics capital?

Beyond NIMBY: Hazardous Waste Siting in Canada and the United States, by Barry G. Rabe (1995).

NIMBY expresses our desire for self - preservation.

Without determining a higher purpose, we will never overcome the NIMBY obstacle.

This approach assumes that if all communities take the NIMBY attitude, government agencies will not be able to find any backyard in which to dump toxic chemicals and nuclear waste, and the system will become plugged.

There have been two approaches to NIMBY that could be dubbed «ethical.»

Our perspective changes quickly when we try to view NIMBY in light of the needs of society as a whole.

it seems to come down to the ADL being a NIMBY (not in my back yard) when it comes to mosques.

People that are bound and determine to keep the homeless out of their back yard (NIMBY).

At a recent taping of July's show, which will air four times a week on Channel 6, Buffalo Grove Village President Sid Mathias led a discussion of the pros and cons of extending Illinois Highway 53, one of the great NIMBY issues of the day.

For the uninitiated, a nimby is someone who objects to a new development close to home - Not In My Back Yard.