Sentences with phrase «nimbys like»

Not exact matches

I can't think of a clearcut example off the top of my head, but it happens regularly in Europe for topics that target groups that are concentrated in only a few constituencies (e.g. tax increases, NIMBY topics like authorizing a new airport, or extra layers of government regulation).

She acknowledged the challenges that come with the «Not in My Backyard,» or «NIMBY,» worldview — which the mayor said has hurt the city's proposals to bring homeless shelters to different neighborhoods — noting that given the rising population of New York City, the city has to «build more than people in neighborhoods would like.»

There are countless home videos like these online of bears where they shouldn't be: climbing over a car windshield while a baby screams in the backseat; throwing a pool party in Connecticut, which was cute, in a NIMBY kind of way.

Just a minor request... could some of the overwhelming number of acronyms be fleshed out occasionally for those of us who don't necessarily know what they stand for... NIMBY, MBTU, HCFC etc etc... although familiar to many who post, I would like to remind all that we are trying to educate a larger readership, and ultimately influence public policy.

We should eliminate use of NIMBY and the legal system that is stopping the development of renewable power like Cape Wind.

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.

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.

Some elected officials openly stated early efforts looked a lot like NIMBY actions (Not in my Back Yard) and were reluctant to embrace conservation that would only affect a neighborhood.

Some cities like Toronto have been fighting laneway housing for decades, everyone being literally NIMBY about it.

With cheap alternatives like coal always on hand, and that dangerous, fallout - prone perception entrenched in the American imagination — and the NIMBY

Turbines like this are unlikely to please the NIMBY anti-wind crowd, but we'll just have to keep reminding them that wind turbines as bird - killers are largely an eco-myth - and that climate change is no fun to have in your backyard either!