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How to convince a NIMBY to build more housing
- ggm 5y agoI am a NIMBY opposing a 24 storey build in an area which has a 12-15 storey cap. The 24 is actually 32, they cut it down when 800 of us complained. We're not opposed to dense housing: far from it, we want widespread 5-10 builds to improve housing stocks alongside schools and hospitals and parks and shops. It's a beautiful building proposal, which is twice the local planning code expectations and an ambit claim, jumping the city skyline 800m in front of the current edge of tall towers. Sometimes, opposition has a rational basis. There's no economic upside for the community at large from this building, I continue to oppose it.