Managing NIMBY Issues Before They Manage You

摘要

Those who are responsible for siting and permitting site-specific or linear facilities are well aware that in today's environment of regulatory requirements, polarized politics, and litigation, citizen opposition to proposed projects can be daunting. Determined citizens have successful track records of delaying projects, driving up project costs, and blocking projects that are technically sound and necessary. To relegate the causes of citizen opposition to a few selfish people who do not want the project in their backyards is to miss the crux of grassroots citizen activism.