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Originally Posted by the urban politician
Ten years ago, the big threat to our much ballyhooed revitalization of cities was NIMBYism—the familiar kind. “Too dense! Too tall! Not enough parking Too much parking!”
Is this kind of stuff happening in your city?
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Had to revise that for San Francisco. My city has had an authentic war on the private automobile (now extended to include ride-sharing) for decades. And many projects have been forced to eliminate most or all planned parking before they could be approved by the Planning Commission. The fact that public transit has been badly mismanaged for all that time and barely functions as a usable alternative hardly seems to matter.
As to your larger point, I wager the efforts you describe in most places could learn a thing or two from the the
SF Anti-Displacement Coalition which has been around form decades and especially its various
subunits in the Mission District.