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A client of mine got a negative report from a county where she is planning a new 65-lot residential development.  In particular, a spreadsheet was submitted by a neighbor that purported to show that the fiscal impact of (any) new subdivision on the county’s balance sheet and operating statement would be negative.  Here was my […]

Hesiod, a Greek poet who was active sometime between 750 and 650 BC, said: A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage So why do so many people make enemies of their neighbors? Whether the issue between the two of you is petty or crucial, your first […]

The only thing NIMBY BANANAS hate more than sprawl is intensification. NIMBY = NOT IN MY BACKYARD BANANA = Build Anything Nowhere And Nothing Anywhere @ profbruce

Here’s an incredible NIMBY (not in my backyard) story from Bloomberg Businessweek. Would you turn down a free museum from Star Wars creator George Lucas, who would not only pay for its construction, but endow it with a fund to operate it plus donate his sizable sentimentalist and narrative art collection to kick off its […]

What’s Holding Back Economic Growth? I met Walt Rostow many years ago when he visited Ottawa. I enjoyed listening to the great man hold forth on his ideas about how to establish the preconditions for economic takeoff in DCs, developing countries. From Walt Rostow’s work of the 1950s and 1960s and recent work by Hernando […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o04Ksd795hQ?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=187] George Carlin on the NIMBY Phenomenon NSFO @ quantum_entity (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8HZDm8BmbE?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] NIMBYs are everywhere (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvjVwlpe6Ek?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1&origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&wmode=opaque&w=250&h=141] Nimby Speech by Chip (Will Arnett) in Flaked Chip (played by Will Arnett in the Netflix series Flaked) comes to his Venice (Calif) neighborhood council meeting, at first, he thinks, to oppose a new infill project (a hotel). He represents a BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) cause named “SaVenice”, as in […]

I think the forces of NIMBYism (not-in-my-backyard reactionaries) might be a significant contributor to holding local and regional economies back from reaching their potential or for that matter even being self-sustaining; each region has to be able to act and react to changes happening every three months in a global marketplace with land use policies […]

Here’s an interesting story of how to (possibly) animate a small town (Shoalhaven Heads New South Wales, population 2,910, about 55 minutes south of Wollongong) by adding a Shaolin Temple and Kung fu academy. The original temple (located on Dengfeng Avenue in Dengfeng, Zhengzhou, Henan about 11 and ½ hours by car northwest of Hangzhou) […]

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff and Chief Economist Stan Humphries wrote Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate, Grand Central Publishing, 2015.   Zillow launched in 2005, and had 1 million users on day 2, primarily due to Zestimates, the ability to put in any street address in the US, and get an instant assessment of […]