Yes in my back yard

David at Forking Mad wrote Are you a Nimby? and said he'd not heard the term before, which surprised me. Nimbyism seems to be a really big conversation here. The counterpart is Yimby - Yes in my back yard. Usually this is all in reference to housing. I think we should probably be building new towns with excellent accessible infrastructure, at human scale, of houses that are sustainable and modern and interesting rather than hodgepodge mock Tudor dozen-at-a-time developments. Of course this always gets fought tooth and nail. The equivalent in my area now is that people get very proprietorial about our local park. It is at the top of my road and an important part of this area and its identity. Half a mile from the city centre, very close to the train station, it's large, flat, and open. Naturally it is a venue for big events like the marathon, carnival, outdoor concerts, and so on. You cannot miss this park when moving to the area. It has been here in some form for hundreds of years. It…