What you see as hypocricy may simply be people playing the game. You have the perspective of continuity. Any other audience, however, is not paying close enough attention to see it. Those playing that game you object to may see it exactly as you do but are simply saying who besides you is going to notice.
NIMBYS are concerned citizens who have organized for right and justice, most often against the corrupt money interest carpet baggers. The allegation of NIMBY is not effective in a local fight. Ive never seen it sway a local decision, especially when a room full of NIMBYs have managed to pack a city council chamber.
The cards the developers hold are one hundred dollar bills at campaign time.
Again, I agree that the developers hold the cards.
But where were the protests against their unequal sway with politicians when it was for projects that some people liked? Wasn’t it still wrong to shut out the opposition then?
What I am talking aobut is peoople like here on FR who go on and on and on about Agenda 21 and “herding us into apartments” and top-down government control ... but these same top-down government control is what build suburbia. The same politically connected developers built suburbia ... they got the sweethear deals, the tax abatements, sticking the taxpayers with the bill for infrastructure and all the rest of it ... but when the shoe is on the other foot, and developers are using their influence to build more densisity, then all of a sudden they are up in arms about it.
They are the same damn thing. The only difference was these people liked it when politically connected developers were throwing their hundred dollar bills at campaigns for development patterns they agreed with. Now it’s all a conspiracy to “herd is into high rise apartments”
It’s the hypocrisy that I am calling out.