» Monthly Archives: October 2009
NIMBY Wars – Developers face street fight, not group hug, in public forum
(Editor’s Note: NIMBY Wars — The Politics of Land Use was published this week. In this excerpt, after explaining why PR alone won't win a planning fight, mass meetings can be recipe for disaster -- introducing opponents to each other and putting developers on the back foot)By P. Michael Saint, Robert J. Flavell and Patrick ...
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Saint Model Outcomes – help developers find and rally latent support
By Nick Keable
Vice President, UK Operations, The Saint Consulting Group
So often developers find themselves drowned out at public hearings by opponents who object to wind farms blotting a landscape, trucks raising dust and traffic dangers and many other reasons why some people oppose development.
Take wind farms, for example. The Saint Index has established public support ...
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Britain Blows Past 4GW Wind Mark, Still Has Long Way To Go
October 28, 2009 — Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Analysis — The British Wind Energy Association has unveiled new data on the nation's wind power industry, and it's a mix of good and bad news. The windiest nation nation in Europe still has a long way to go to catch up with competitors on ...
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A message from Mike Saint on publication today of NIMBY Wars
Many of you are familiar with my company and how we at The Saint Consulting Group have been winning land use battles for 25 years. With my colleagues, Bob Flavell and Patrick Fox, I have written a new book, called “NIMBY WARS, The Politics of Land Use” that has been published today by the Saint ...
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Why a good land use campaign plan is like a good business plan
By Owen Eagan,
Senior Vice President, transportation, The Saint Consulting Group
If you’re a successful entrepreneur, you’re likely adept at drafting a strong business plan complete with your market research, pro formas, etc. That is, your business plan likely consists of a bottom-up model. You don’t start with the idea that there are X number of people ...
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NIMBY Wars – Why PR alone won’t win support for your project
(Editor’s Note: NIMBY Wars — The Politics of Land Use will be published on October 28. In this excerpt, it's worth looking at some methods for trying to persuade the public to support a controversial development project, starting with public relations)By P. Michael Saint, Robert J. Flavell and Patrick F. Fox In most settings, the old ...
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How to prepare for packed crowd at planning council – view from the field
(Saint Consulting project managers use their political campaign experience to go into neighborhoods and identify support and opposition to our clients’ development proposals. Here is an account that could take place at any planning and zoning committee hearing with one of our project managers.) By Saint Consulting Group StaffGreetings from a packed Planning and Zoning Committee meeting ...
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Pioneer Planning reviews NIMBY Wars — invaluable for any developer
Jeff Tyndall, a professional planner in the public sector for nine years, has just finished reading NIMBY Wars and posted a review on his blog Pioneer Planning. In Jeff's own words: "I can say the book made me think differently about land use decisions, especially coming from my background as a public sector planner over ...
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NIMBY Wars – advocacy in land use politics is much more than PR
(Editor’s Note: NIMBY Wars — The Politics of Land Use will be published on October 28. In this excerpt, the right to advocate a position in land use fights applies to both offense and defense and involves much more than PR) By P. Michael Saint, Robert J. Flavell and Patrick F. FoxIn Western democracies, everyone has ...
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Saint Tip: Developers, here’s how to win over sceptical politicians
By Nick KeableVice President, UK Operations, The Saint Consulting GroupWith so much public opposition to large-scale development, it may be helpful to summarise some advice we share with clients to help developers save time and money and win planning consent.A prospective client asked me an interesting question recently: “What options do I have to win ...
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