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Old Posted Sep 4, 2017, 3:31 PM
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Originally Posted by aquablue View Post
Obviously when you have that kind of density, you'll have a lot of NIMBY. No way it's the king of nimbies though. Look at San Fran, where anything tall is extremely hard to build outside of a few plots of designated land.
I say New York is the king of NIMBYs for exactly the reasons you state. It's a city where large skyscrapers exists in large numbers, and people are still outraged that they can be built. At least in other places the NIMBYs have somewhat of an argument. Here, they are just absurd.
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