| > I'm only half-joking here. I have plenty of notionally anti-NIMBY friends and they, without fail, are collecting petitions and protesting at planning meetings every time someone ruin their backyard tranquility. And I'm sure I'd be doing that too. The "My Backyard" part of the shortcut explains that very well > It reduces the debate to fighting some imagined, small class of property owners who oppose progress. because it is exactly that. Just that "small" class" contains everyone that has a backyard and something else is there to affect their backyard. "Sacrifice of an unit to benefit the whole long term" is concept people romanticise, but not preach. Also like 80% NIMBY problems are caused specifically by housing and property being value store instead of utility. If your property is most of your net worth and you are still paying for its mortgage, any attack on its value is existential threat to your (and your family, and possibly your kid's inheritance) well being. > If we're OK with that as a society, we should say so, and we should have streamlined ways to lessen these impacts instead of pretending they don't exist and it's all just irrationality of the select few. And once we have that, just build stuff - without years of reviews, environmental studies, lawsuits, and so forth. Pretty much. If the loss of perceived value would be compensated above market value, there would be far less problems with it. But if the deal is "you get rough value of your house but now you need to dive into housing market again and hope you get decent deal that still have stuff you want around be around", who would want that? Even worse when compensation is low enough that you'd need to downgrade your standard of living. |