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Re:Anti-NIMBY movement is winning with a simple message by kelnos on Monday November 13, 2017 @04:38PM (#15690501)
Exactly: they have a stake. That shouldn't give them the right to make unilateral "no" decisions for everyone else, but that's basically what we have in SF.
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Re:Anti-NIMBY movement is winning with a simple message by sliverstorm on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:54PM (#15691045)
I don't live in SF but it sounded like the community was making unilateral "no" decisions, which is what happens when all the stakeholders get together and agree. To which, the system is working exactly how it was designed. Does one person actually have the power to make unilateral decisions in SF?
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Re:Anti-NIMBY movement is winning with a simple message by kelnos on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @08:58PM (#15700923)
More or less. Only a small minority of the community needs to complain, and that can delay or completely scuttle projects. The people who do complain usually do so loudly and obnoxiously, which really gets the gov't's attention for some reason.
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