3 ms·
> When Brown was mayor of Oakland, "every Oakland project I proposed was opposed at City Council by one group of neighbors or activists," he said last October.
by matt_wulfeck 10y ago
> When Brown was mayor of Oakland, "every Oakland project I proposed was opposed at City Council by one group of neighbors or activists," he said last October.
If anyone wants to see evidence of this just sign up at nextdoor. There exist a group of dedicated people in every neighborhood whose sole purpose it is to stop any new development.
- Asparagirl 10y agoTHIS. OMG, the anti-development mob on Nextdoor is horrifying. I live in southern Marin and you would not believe the hysterical and shameless level of NIMBYism. People in my area use the platform to try to block new single family residences from being built even on privately-owned parcels, and post to Nextdoor urging everyone to come to the planning meetings to try to block the permits. After all, the person who wanted to build the house was a developer who lived in Sacramento, not a local person, and everybody freaked. Why, there was even a possibility that he might build five or ten houses in that area further down the line (the horror, the horror). When I posted comments objecting to the attitude, one of the local anti-development residents apparently ran a deep background check on me and posted to Nextdoor that I surely must be opposed because my family must be real estate developers and have some kind of vested interest. Actually, my grandfather started a commercial real estate company on the other side of the country, not residential real estate nor any kind of new development. But the implication was clear: try to block NIMBYism and people will actually dox you (albeit poorly), to the point they will seek out your deceased maternal grandfather's name and business.