» Monthly Archives: March 2011
Not in My (Liberal) Backyard: Green protest just plain old Nimbyism
(Elena (Lena) Babaeva Coradini is an associate with Waller Lansden in Nashville, TN, focusing on regulatory, energy, government relations and environmental law, including project development, compliance and permitting issues. This post is reprinted from the Waller Blog with her permission)
By Lena Babaever Coradini,
For every good headline for sustainability, there is one like this: Green Development? Not in My ...
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Strategic Opposition Part 3: you may not see development opponents coming
(Editor’s Note: The Saint Report has explored the changing landscape of real estate development and evolution of land use politics. In this series, we look at strategic opposition to development and a growing industry of consultants who bring new strategies to the politics of planning)
By Saint Consulting Staff
Competitors engaging in strategic opposition are generally invisible ...
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Strategic Opposition, Part 2: killing real estate projects is a huge industry
(Editor’s Note: The Saint Report has explored the changing landscape of real estate development and evolution of land use politics. In this series, we look at strategic opposition to development and a growing industry of consultants who bring new strategies to the politics of planning)
By Saint Consulting Staff
In the old days, one of the ...
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Saint expert leads CONExpo course March 23 on overcoming community opposition
Christopher Hopkins, the senior vice president for aggregates and mining at The Saint Consulting Group, will lead a course on overcoming community opposition to development at CONExpo in Las Vegas on Wednesday, March 23.
Chris oversees all of the Saint Consulting work in the quarry and mining industries in the US, United Kingdom and Canada. He ...
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Energy projects stalled by NIMBYs, lawsuits cost 21,200 jobs in Oregon
Research by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce indicates that nine stalled or canceled energy projects in Oregon have cost the state $6.8 billion and 21,200 jobs.
Blaming activists, broken permitting processes and a system that allows multiple lawsuits to slow — or stop — progress on the ground, the report speaks out against NIMBY-ism. However, some ...
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Strategic opposition: new strategies and tactics to stop developers Part 1
(Editor’s Note: The Saint Report has explored the changing landscape of real estate development and evolution of land use politics. In this series, we look at strategic opposition to development and a growing industry of consultants who bring new strategies to the politics of planning) By Saint Consulting Staff A huge new ...
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Good projects die every day, how to counter NIMBY, BANANA and CAVE
By Patrick Fox, President, The Saint Consulting Group
Whether you call them NIMBYs, BANANAs, CAVE* people or uninformed, selfish nutcases, they are organizing to stop your project and, often, they are winning. Regardless of how good you think your project is and how hard you may have worked to address community needs they are still there ...
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Can Social Media Be a Savior For Real Estate Developers? asks Dave Jacobs
(Dave Jacobs of Llenrock Group reviewed Nimby Wars in November 2009 and has recently posted a new look at social media and its potential for real estate developers)
By Dave Jacobs, Llenrock Group
The answer to this question, of course, is yes and no. On its own, there is nothing social media can do to save a commercial ...
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