Sentences with phrase «on nimbys»

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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.

But, in addition to my NIMBY rationale / «paranoia,» I am opposed to casinos based on economic reasons.

Even the acronym — NIMBY — conjures up an image of a couple in their mid-fifties, brandishing a copy of the Daily Mail, and giving their thoughts through pursed lips to a local reporter on the new sexual health clinic or children's home that's going up far too close for comfort to their bungalow in Penge, thank you very much.

That force — NIMBY or Not In My Back Yard - ism — has taken distinct forms on different issues, but has been causing the de Blasio administration trouble and frustrating the mayor.

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...).

NIMBY is what's going on there.

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

You have it almost exactly backwards: it's not NIMBY, but IMBY, or more precisely, on my rooftop — and yours too.

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.

Perhaps because the former is primarily selfish (NIMBY) while the latter is largely altruistic (it's for the good of the planet and everyone on it)?

(I'm not going to call them Nimby's, because I think it misses the point, and the emphasis on people «investing» in asset inflation has political origins.

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.

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.

Jonathan: I'm not keen on the «Nimby» expression because people object to wind farms for all sorts of reasons.

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

Interview with Jim Gordon, CEO of Cape Wind The famed Cape Wind offshore wind project has finally been granted a permit to begin construction, after a decade - long battle with the company and clean energy advocates on one side, and well - funded fossil fuel industry interests and NIMBY concerns on the other.

More Renewable Energy NIMBYs Take Note: Study Finds Wind Turbines Have No Significant Impact on Property Value Lithium - Ion Batteries for EVs to Grow from $ 878 Million Market in 2010 to $ 8 Billion in 2015 Plastic Solar Breakthrough: Efficiency Record Broken by Solarmer

Oliver correctly puts the blame mostly on Senator Harry Reid from Nevada who killed Yucca Mountain for purely NIMBY reasons (not in my back yard).

More on John McCain's Nuclear Power Plans: The Nuclear Option: McCain V. Obama on Nuclear Power John McCain Reveals He's a Nuclear Power NIMBY

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

When I first began to review the data, my cynical expectation was that librarians would have an explicit NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) position on the access to justice issue.

Peter Robbins, who describes himself on his blog as a retired homicide investigator, wrote a post this past March 11 in which he referred to the anti-dredging suit as «this, NIMBY, frivolous, malicious action is doing nothing but stalling the inevitable and costing us the taxpayers unnecessary time and money.»

It is disappointing that Europe has not been able to come together and, instead, legislators across the continent have been focused on drafting NIMBY laws to make their particular jurisdictions less attractive.

National Low Income Housing Coalition — Includes numerous studies and reports on the state of affordable housing in the U.S., including the monthly NIMBY Report.

The effects of low - income, public, and subsidized housing on the values of surrounding properties, the challenge of NIMBY, and some possible resources people can use to educate community groups and local governments.