Suppose California bulldozed 100+ homes for a business campus? Suppose the campus was then outlawed after pressure from “community groups”?

Photo above - the Caterpillar D11 - the king of bulldozers. Currently taking a day off . . .

We don’t want affordable housing! We don’t want new business and jobs! We just want everyone to get the Eff out, and to turn this land into green space! This is the NIMBY game taken to the pro-level, no? See link below.

Let me be clear . . . the displaced homeowners are (probably) NOT living in tents on some sidewalk. But they did have to walk away from their 3% mortgages, and scramble for high rate financing in the after the Fed rate increases last year. But I can’t assure anyone that no new land was converted to housing for these evictees. Maybe no, or maybe some wild area WAS bulldozed. The NIMBY complainers in San Bernadino would probably shrug at some other community’s affordable housing travails. NIMBY!

100+ homes gone. The developer followed all the rules. Hearings. Permits. Fees. Remediation to prevent any ancillary impacts to a nearby schoolyard. Ready, set . . . stop. A group which failed to prevail at the hearings asked around and found a friendly judge. NIMBY!

Okay . . . I hear the existential whine of people who AREN’T scrambling for new housing in this market. 100 lost homes are no big deal. The jobs in the 2 million square foot business campus could possibly pop up some place else. And corporations which follow the rules can go pound sand. They’re rich. If they don’t like it when community groups flex their muscles after their project is, then those evil corporations can just move out of state. More green space for the rest of us! NIMBY!

Of course, none of those quotes appear in the link. I’m just channeling the smug attitude of some special interest groups. NIMBY. Everybody else can go get effed!

I’m just sayin’ . . .

Judge halts construction of massive warehouse project after scores of homes already demolished (msn.com)