On: The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution

[tptacek]

I don't know, this sure sounds like NIMBYism to me. Public comment was used to organize against multifamily housing units. That's approximately the whole story; I think you pretty much just have to add "organizing against new renewable and grid upgrades" to complete it.

[harimau777 → tptacek]

NIMBYism isn't always wrong.

[tptacek → harimau777]

We can agree to disagree, so long as we can at least recognize NIMBYism when we see it. "Public comment works great because it enabled us to organize to keep a multifamily development out of our vicinity" is like the archetypical NIMBY project.

[mitxela → harimau777]

When it's a data center, maybe, but these people got housing densification shot down, keeping home prices and rent high for everybody.

[quacked → tptacek]

They weren't multifamily units.

[alex43578 → quacked]

"5-over-1 or over-1s, also known as a one-plus-five or a podium building,[1] is a type of multi-family residential building commonly found in urban areas of North America", so either you're wrong about them wanting to build a 5 over 1 or wrong about them being multi-family.

[quacked → alex43578]

Then maybe I used to wrong term. It was a building full of singles, built to look almost exactly like the classic 5-over-1.

[tptacek → quacked]

Yes, that's a multifamily development.