Rich Connecticut NIMBYs Don't Want Your Filthy Coronavirus Tests Near Them
Their complaints shut down an important pandemic-fighting tool. Fortunately, a substitute plan has been found.
Their complaints shut down an important pandemic-fighting tool. Fortunately, a substitute plan has been found.
Blame angry neighbors, not the feds.
Local activists have argued that the housing officials in charge of reviewing the Suffolk Downs mega-development has violated residents' civil rights by not translating enough planning documents into Spanish, Arabic
Two non-profit groups argued that developers had been improperly awarded a building permit for a 112-unit condo building on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Three decades later, is it time for the city simulation game to get political?
And it might make housing more affordable in many places. Conservative NIMBYs should not stand in the way.
NIMBYism has dominated housing policy for the last ten years. Will the 2020s be any better?
Joey Mucha wanted to convert his warehouse into a restaurant, bar, and arcade. Then community activists intervened.
Remy's plan for more housing meets NIMBY resistance.
The struggles Joey Mucha had to go through to secure a simple change of use permit highlight the problems inherent in San Francisco's planning process.
Neighbors say Joey Mucha's plans for a Skee-Ball arcade in the Mission would be a positive addition to the community. Activists disagree.
Development restrictions and NIMBYism, not tech sector success, explain Silicon Valley's housing costs.
Opponents use a notorious environmental review law to keep a famed fast food restaurant out of Rancho Mirage.
New York Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou is a plaintiff in a lawsuit to stop a Habitat for Humanity housing project.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is suing to prevent Amoeba Music's Hollywood location from becoming a 200-unit apartment building.
Denver NIMBYs are using historic preservation laws to stop a restaurant owner from selling his diner to a developer so he can retire.
In a beautiful display of how markets can resolve conflicts, Manhattanites pay a developer to not block their view.
Delaying housing projects for years will not make cities more affordable.
An environmental lawsuit holds up yet another residential development in housing-starved California.
SB 50's upzoning provisions were repeatedly watered down to make the bill more politically palatable. It turns out that wasn't enough.
This is not the first time the city has tried to delay a project over shadow concerns.
A Nashville producer challenges the city's crazy ban on commercial home recording studios.
Tokyo is a shining example of how free market housing regulations can keep even big, growing cities affordable.
The Alexandria City Council voted to approve the butchery's special-use permit.
The town of Hillsborough, CA has deemed a sign bearing the cartoon character's famous catchphrase an "eyesore" and "public nuisance."
How much power does the state of California have to force NIMBY localities to build more housing?
City officials determined years ago that the home was of no historic value.
The anti-development crowd has weaponized D.C.'s historic preservation process. A Safeway wants the city to rule that nothing important happened there.
The HUD secretary's desire to tackle restrictive zoning is encouraging, but real reform will have to come from the bottom up.
The 1930s building must be rebuilt exactly as it was, save for a plaque explaining the details of its demolition.
California's local officials are always in favor of more housing in general, but rarely support the individual projects that come before them.
A positive but marginal reform to the Golden State's byzantine housing regulations
Saddled with unaffordable requirements, Axis kills plans for a 117-unit apartment building.
Hysterical NIMBYism reaches new heights in Berkeley.
Designed by famed architect Moshe Safdie, a planned Medal of Honor Museum is 75 feet too tall for local zoning codes.
There are no angels in this long-running turf war.
Neighborhood residents demand a proposed affordable housing complex be five stories, not seven, to preserve "neighborhood character."
Golden State lawmakers reluctantly face the economic facts.