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I don't know, this sure sounds like NIMBYism to me. Public comment was used to organize against multifamily housing units. That's approximately the whole story;

by tptacek 1mo ago

I don't know, this sure sounds like NIMBYism to me. Public comment was used to organize against multifamily housing units. That's approximately the whole story; I think you pretty much just have to add "organizing against new renewable and grid upgrades" to complete it.

quacked 1mo ago
They weren't multifamily units.
- alex43578 1mo ago
  "5-over-1 or over-1s, also known as a one-plus-five or a podium building,[1] is a type of multi-family residential building commonly found in urban areas of North America", so either you're wrong about them wanting to build a 5 over 1 or wrong about them being multi-family.
  - quacked 1mo ago
    Then maybe I used to wrong term. It was a building full of singles, built to look almost exactly like the classic 5-over-1.
    - tptacek 1mo ago
      Yes, that's a multifamily development.
harimau777 1mo ago
NIMBYism isn't always wrong.
- tptacek 1mo ago
  We can agree to disagree, so long as we can at least recognize NIMBYism when we see it. "Public comment works great because it enabled us to organize to keep a multifamily development out of our vicinity" is like the archetypical NIMBY project.
- mitxela 1mo ago
  When it's a data center, maybe, but these people got housing densification shot down, keeping home prices and rent high for everybody.