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• n  someone who objects to siting something in their own neighborhood but does not object to it being sited elsewhere; an acronym for not in my backyard

• Beyond that, there's the nimby problem.
• Conservatives have lamented the fact that today's newest associations are often parochial, nimby-style protest groups.
• Every time I see bulldozers in the forest, and new raw earth, and a new house going up a few miles away, I feel like a beleaguered animal myself (the scribbling nimby, a shy but .

• NIMBY

News & Articles

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• Neighbor Beefs: Los Angeles's NIMBY Problem is Causing Its Housing Problem
  NIMBYs are destroying Los Angeles, says economist Christopher Thornberg in an LA Times op-ed. Starting with the example of CasdenWestLA, the huge Expo Line-adjacent mixed-user that was scaled way back last month, he argues that the city's housing shortage...
  July 12, 2013 - Curbed LA

Quotes

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• Barbara Hall in Chatham Daily News
  NIMBY syndrome was a prevailing theme throughout the consultations,said Hall.
• Glenn in The Republican - MassLive.com
  A lot of people from Boston point a NIMBY finger at Cape Cod, but if someone proposed a series of wind turbines down the Charles River there would be an uproar,said Glenn Wattley, president of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.