> Why is it important to accommodate people who might want to live in or move to an area despite local incumbent's wishes to not have their neighborhood change?

> Why is it important to accommodate people who might want to live in or move to an area despite local incumbent's wishes to not have their neighborhood change? Lets accommodate the people who own land, propose building upon it and meet and all relevant zoning codes and regulations but are denied because reasons: ```Marty Medina said he wished an agreement could have been reached which would have allowed the development to advance but he was unable to detail the specific size and scope of a project that he would have supported. “I don’t regret my decision because I have to live with it,” he said. “But I just wished for a different outcome.”``` ... > through use of pejoratives like "NIMBY" serves to distract from the plain truth, which is simply that people are acting in their own self-interests. The two "selfs" are not the same. The one group is literal millionaires (home owners) while the other is the working poor/middle class who would prefer to avoid 2 hour commutes.