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Rezoning can bring out the worst in #neighborhoods. And, yes, we’re talking about #NIMBYs. These people are often small , angry, loud groups that claim to speak for all but, in fact, are narrowly self-interested. Can anything be done to bring others … say, renters … into discussions about neighborhoods and land use? Denver is trying. Other cities should pay attention. denverite.com/2025/02/03/denve

Denverite · Denver just changed the rules for how properties are rezonedThe new process includes more attention to renters — and lots of other changes.

The one #irritating af thing about the #fediverse (or maybe it’s specific to #Mastodon) are the #nimbys.

“The fediverse isn’t for sharing anything that upsets people!”

“If you don’t write alt text you’re as bad as a transphobe!”

“Use CWs because I don’t want to filter tags!”

(Yes, this is a subtoot, except I already blocked the asshat so I’m just venting sarcastically. And being asked nicely is cool, just not when someone thinks they’re John Mastodon & running the Fediverse.)

And to make sure more people see this, enjoy this short #video of our deaf 18yo #cat this fine #Caturday. She’s sitting on a heating vent but the vid didn’t turn out as cool as I’d hoped.

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@LukePhilipps Solche #NIMBYS (wie die in der Türkei) hasse ich.

Ein Problem löst man doch nicht, wenn man es nur wegschiebt!?

Einem Schiff, was planmäßig abgebaut & verschrottet werden sollte (zum Umweltschutz), dann plötzlich doch die Einfahrt in den Hafen zu verweigern und so eine Havarie auf dem Meer zu riskieren, ist doch für den Unweltschutz viel schlechter. Auf dem offenen Meer sind die Umwelt-Schäden bei einer unkontrollierten Havarie viel größer als im Hafen! #Egoismus #Nationalismus

Beverly Hills on Dec. 2 received a second letter from California’s Department of Housing and Development that it violated state housing laws by blocking 10 development projects that contain affordable housing.

The developments would add a total of 198 affordable housing units within the city, greatly expanding the city’s housing stock of 8 units.

Fucking #BeverlyHills having 8 goddamn affordable housing units. Fucking #NIMBYs blocking new houses.

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@jimclark @Gleisplan @tagesschau Ich habe überhaupt keine Modelleisenbahn.

Aber auf einer Modelleisenbahn gibt es auch keine #NIMBYs, denen die Eisenbahn scheißegal ist, weil sie seit ihrem 18. Geburtstag nurmehr noch mit dem Pkw fahren und niemals auch nur in einen Bus einsteigen würden, geschweige denn in einen Zug.

Die von Lokal- bis Bundespolitikern aufgrund ausschließlich persönlicher Machtinteressen mit infamen Lügen gegen jegliche Erweiterungspläne des deutschen Eisenbahnnetzes aufgehetzt werden.

Übrigens wäre die #YTrasse einfacher zu realisieren und umwelt- und naturschutzfreundlicher (!), und sie würde einhergehen mit weniger Gebäudeabrissen als #AlphaE. Siehe Gustav Richard:
youtube.com/watch?v=RaLuwNRnPq

One of the great forces for change in local gov’t is #advocacy. But it’s important that the advocacy be broad-based and driven by facts. S.F. has built broad civic coalitions in recent years, in efforts to build more #housing and break the political grip of #NIMBYs. Now we’re seeing similar groups across the Bay in Oakland. Can they be a force for good gov’t there? sfchronicle.com/politics/joega

No YouTube. I’m not going to elect the city council candidates that block any and all housing plans with excuses and get the city fined by the state of California again.

I wonder how many of my neighbors pay attention and realize that the same anti-housing gentleman that accuses the city of gross mismanagement leading to higher taxes belong to those people who are gonna get us fined again.

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@LunaDragofelis @RuthODay also not an option because that would not fit either, and whilst a "#Dangletrain" Like the #SkyTrain and #OverheadMonorail would be cool, but cross-compatibility is zero and acceptance for something like it - and the necessary construction, of elevated stations which further choke transport of people and is harder to make accessible than to replace the entire rolling stock with low-floor vehicles that have automatic ramps..

  • Same for any "Light Rail" on elevated tracks above ground...

See for yourself...

  • There's no way to unfuck this without committing "political suicide" as a mayor and have massive protests by #NIMBYs
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Oh, youtube.

Youtube just showed me a local politician’s ad (good job, YouTube. You know my rough location isn’t Nevada , that’s a rare insight).

Well.

He’s from the faction that

…points at two-to-three story townhomes and tells me that’s too much density in my suburbia is just…

bwahahahahaha

That faction has been known for being toxic as hell in city government, too.

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But these disappointing people cannot bring themselves to ever accept that everyone in California has to help make up for our housing deficit.

Yes, the wealthy suburbs, too!

Some of the other zip codes that build housing have to contend with the very real trade off that new housing might raise rental costs for existing residents, if they don’t calibrate this carefully (and maybe even if they do).

Here, they’re worried about non-existent impact to the value of million dollar homes.

lol, I knew it!

I am disappointed but not surprised that my close by neighbors were not honest with me.

They gave me a petition to sign to ensure that “the city ensures infrastructure maintenance for the 2-3 story townhouses they’re building around the corner” and “we’re not trying to block it”

I suspected a backhanded way to derail the development and didn’t sign.

Tea gets back to me from the city council meeting. They were absolutely trying to block it.

#Wissing und #Lies entscheiden sich dafür Schleswig-Holstein vom #Deutschlandtakt abzuhängen.

Lars #Klingbeil (#SPD) hatte die Steilvorlage für eine schlechtere Trasse gegeben als ihm seine Wahlkreis- #Nimbys wichtiger waren als die Lösung grundlegender Verkehrsprobleme. Und die FDP nimmt die Vorlage freudig auf. Damit treffen sie für Deutschland eine Enstcheidung für die Abhängigkeit vom Autoverkehr, denn die fancy klingende #AlphaE ist nicht leistungsfähig.
abendblatt.de/hamburg/article4

Hamburger Abendblatt · ICE-Trasse Hamburg–Hannover: Volker Wissing positioniert sichBy FUNKE Mediengruppe