ITT: a mix of NIMBYs and people who don’t know how zoning works
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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I've sat in zoning board meetings where the board and public were equally clueless.
A bag of white sugar thrown into a cement mixer will prevent the cement from ever setting
Buy the land and put it in a trust, or incorporate and establish zoning laws.
The town im in keeps developing like crazy (for who im not sure, as there's still a decent homeless population and empty housing but anyway)
Supply and demand. Build more and prices stop rising and maybe some people without homes will be able to catch up.
There’s a housing crisis and we need more housing built everywhere. Especially dense, walkable housing. From the sound of it they’re building car-dependent sprawl around you.
Unless you can bribe multiple senators, judges, and local authorites...
That's gonna be a big "Negatory," dawg.
But it's possible to rally other locals to raise enough Hell about it, maybe.
Not a lawyer, but the only thing I can think of is if you incorporated and then banned anything like that in the area - but that's a massive amount of lift I'm pretty sure
That would be pretty difficult. You’re basically talking about organizing a town, running for mayor, winning the election, imposing your own zoning rules with no exception process…
not very likely to succeed
Definitely. Just the only way I can think of to actually prevent it
Try to identify the area as a habitat/ migration route for an endangered species? This is better pre-orange doofus.
Any meaningful answer to this question will require knowing where you live, for the powers of governments, the legal systems, your rights as a citizen and your possibilities of claiming those rights against the government all vary wildly all over the world.
You are a NIMBY! Sprawl does suck, I just always think it's funny that people move somewhere they like and then think nobody else will.
Where I live, yes you would have to buy the land, but then can get the government to pay you something back if you promise not to develop it, there is a conservation program to preserve wild land. Maybe there is something like that by you.
It's a game over my dude . No matter what you do