The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. NIMBY stands for Not In My Backyard. It's often employed as a shaming tool to portray those unwilling to ...
The term “NIMBY” — or not-in-my-backyard — is usually considered a pejorative, but some San Mateo residents embraced the description at a community meeting on Tuesday, making claims that the clients ...
In his letter to the Mountain Xpress, Doug Baughman asks: Why has NIMBY (not in my backyard) come to be seen as a bad thing? [“Why Is NIMBY Considered a Bad Thing?” Jan. 21] He remembers when the ...
When you’ve been around a long time, as I have, the same topics tend to recur. One of those is NIMBY, which translates into Not In My Backyard. Here’s a definition of NIMBY I wrote a decade ago: “It’s ...
I n an era of rapid urbanization and intensifying competition for prime real estate, “Not In My Backyard” (NIMBY) sentiment and the CAVE (“Citizens Against Virtually Everything”) anti-growth movement ...
San Diego Union-Tribune: Opinion: What ‘NIMBY’ really means is ‘not in my general vicinity’
After John Boyle’s recent Asheville Watchdog article (“Opinion: Yep, NIMBYism Has Reared Its Ugly Head in Haw Creek Development Imbroglio”), I got to thinking about the whole concept of “not in my ...
There are awards not just for activating and hunting unique parks, but they have their own WAS, there are awards for activating/hunting parks and operators multiple times, park-to-park awards, "late shift" awards for 0000Z to 1200Z contacts (good for the after-work crowd), and more. Activators help the hunters, and hunters help the activators.