Is Your Municipality Prepared to Handle Controversial Zoning Decisions?
Preparing in advance is very helpful in successfully navigating controversial zoning requests. Some pointers from attorney Ron Richards.
NIMBYs
If you are considering a land use change that will affect a residential neighborhood, perfectly normal, rational people will appear to grow fangs and spit fire.
As a planning commissioner you need to keep your cool, and recognize the difference between legitimate concerns and irrational fears.
Most Recent Articles
Ten Things You Should Know About Project Opponents
In the old days, most people thought you could not fight progress or City Hall. But after 20 years of high-profile development fights all over the country, every man and woman now believes they can fight back and win.
Talking with Rebecca Cohen & Keith Wardrip about “The Economic & Fiscal Benefits of Affordable Housing”
The authors’ of the feature article in the Summer 2011 issue of the PCJ respond to comments and questions about their article.
Why Not in Our Back Yard?
Almost all of us have faced locally unwanted land uses. However, these “LULUs” are usually designed to provide vital community services. How your community can harmonize its housing and social service needs with the objections of neighborhood opponents.
Dealing With the Fear of Multi-Family Housing
Steps planners can take to improve the quality, and acceptability, of multi-family housing.
Is Your Community Being Invaded by NIMBYs?
Elaine Cogan offers strategies for dealing with NIMBYs when they show up at your meetings. Includes Sidebar, “Some Observations on NIMBY-ism,” by long-time planner, Perry Norton.
The “Multi-Family Housing Blues”
A planning commissioner recounts what happened when a multi-family housing project was proposed in Raleigh, North Carolina.
