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Originally Posted by PhilliesPhan
As a new-ish Roxborough resident, the level of NIMBYism up here is unlike anything I've seen elsewhere in the city.
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Yup-- as a new resident there myself (as you know), people think I'm crazy for not wanting to build a wall around the neighborhood. The people there oppose apartment buildings because it will bring new people to the neighborhood, which people there find abhorrent, and renters, another thing people find abhorrent there. Ironically, there is a lot of opposition to the single family home developments as well.
The excuses people come up with for the NIMBYism goes to extremes too-- people claiming they hate development because of the environment, then at the same time support retail pad site zoning and parking minimums that are required to be on a surface lot. They will trash a plan over lack of parking, then when 1:1 parking is provided, they'll complain about the traffic from the 1:1 parking.
Their traffic concerns disappear, however, when they're demanding Trader Joe's etc come to the neighborhood.
Most of the people there just want the neighborhood to be a giant gated senior community