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Vivian's avatar

I grew up in this area and still have family who live just down the road! The large grocery store was a Farm Fresh, which had the most amazing fried chicken. (The story about who got the rights to the recipe after the chain shut down a few years ago is an interesting one.) The city recently changed a bunch of the surrounding intersections to include indirect left-hand turns. It remains a pedestrian nightmare!

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Dan Miller's avatar

"Much of what we call NIMBYism is in fact a logical position based on the kind of places we have built."

There's something to this, but it's not everything. This theory would predict that NIMBYism would be less intense in places that are largely car-free (Lower Manhattan, for example). But the residents there complain just as much about new development as any suburbanite, although they may be less likely to mention parking. A lot of people just instinctively dislike change and growth.

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