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NIMBY
Dr. Parveen Kaur Nagpal

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NIMBY
The acronym NIMBY, an acronym for the phrase "Not In My
Backyard“, and its opposite, YIMBY, for “yes in my backyard,”
entered the lexicon sometime in the early 1980s and since then it is
used in many parts of the world like Canada, Hong Kong, Italy,
Japan, USA etc.
The first NIMBY mention was in the New York Times in a 1983
article detailing Colorado farmers’ fight against a hazardous waste site
from being placed near their land.
The first YIMBY came five years later; in that 1988 article, an
executive of a disposal firm proposes making toxic waste dumps
portable, so they could be moved from place to place on the back of
trucks. The answer to NIMBY was YIMBY or “Yes, in many
backyards.’’

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NIMBY carries the connotation that such residents are only
opposing the development because it is close to them and that they
would tolerate or support it if it were built farther away.
Those showing NIMBY reaction are often referred as Nimbys and
their state of mind is called Nimbyism. Sometimes it is also
referred as natural psychological phenomenon to resist change or
development.
The project that are apposed can be private or government
undertaking like developing landfill site, airport, housing
development, skyscrapers, oil wells, chemical plants, military
bases, power plants, prisons, pubs, adult entertainment clubs,
abortion clinics etc.

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“NIMBY” in general sense used by residents of an area where
some form of development takes place which possesses potential
threat to them.
Anything which the residents of an area believe can be
problematic for them is discouraged by them.
NIMBY reaction may also result in formation of groups and
NGOs which tried to convince people opposing the development
activity.
Development which gets a NIMBY reaction may or may not be
actually problematic or dangerous for the residents.

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The uncertainty or lack of clarity hampers many of the
developments which are essential for the overall social
development.
Those opposing agree that such facility is important but
still want it to be developed further away from them.
The NIMBY reaction might be towards the project or
even because of the method followed. E.g. Hundreds of
Mumbaikars, including students and professionals
formed a human chain on 5 Oct. 2018 to protest the
upcoming Metro 2B line.

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NIMBY
Community opposition to establish special needs facilities is a persistent
problem in almost every city.
Egs.
• BANANA – Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere, Near Anyone
• NIMTO – Not in my Term of Office
• LULU – Locally Unwanted Land Use
• NOOS – Not on our Streets
• NIMBY – Not in my Backyard
• NIABY – Not in Anyone's Backyard

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 Not in my term of office, or Not in my election year occasionally referred to
as NIMTOO and NIMEY, are an acronyms referring to the habit of elected
officials for postponing projects that may be unpopular like a new power
plant.
 This is similar to the often stated 'not on my watch', which politicians use to
mean: "as long as I'm in charge, this won't happen".
 Although Not in my election year refers more to the idea that politicians
won't do anything unpopular when the public is thinking about whether or not
to vote for them.
 These delays can often cause particular difficulty with power plants that
would take longer than a politician's elected term under normal
circumstances, such as a nuclear power plant or a hydroelectric facility, that
often have delays anyhow.

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NIMBY tactics may include:
 Circulating neighborhood petitions
 Petitions on social media like Facebook, Twitter etc.
 Writing letters to facility owners, politicians, and the media
 Holding demonstrations
 Taking legal action
 Forming neighborhood opposition groups

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Reasons for Nimby
Increased Traffic
Harm Locally Owned
Business
Loss of residential
property value

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Pollution Increase in crime

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NIMBY – Unethical or Ethical?

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Case Studies

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Case 1- COVID Quarantine Facilities
Hindustan Times, Bengaluru (May 22, 2020 08:05 IST)
A man, who had returned from Mumbai to his native place in
Karnataka on Wednesday and was sent to quarantine, reportedly
committed suicide. The police said that the man hanged himself on
Thursday morning.
He was working at a hotel in Mumbai and had managed to come back
to his native place Moodabidri after inter-state travel was allowed, the
police said.
However, since he had come from a different state, the 51-year-old was
put into mandatory institutional quarantine functioning at a school. The
police said that he was stressed about his employment prospects due to
the Covid-19 lockdown and that appears to be the reason why he killed
himself.

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Case 1 – COVID Quarantine Facilities
Meanwhile, there is growing opposition by residents of various
localities in Karnataka where quarantine facilities are set-up. On 20th
May 2020, residents of Bapujinagar in Shivamoga had attacked a
hostel, which had been designated as a quarantine facility for those
coming back from Mumbai, destroying furniture and other equipment.
Earlier, residents of Giringar in Bengaluru and Anekal on the outskirts
of the city had staged similar protests. Their main concern was that
infected people may spread the disease among the people of that area.
However, a health department official said this kind of NIMBY (not in
my back yard) phenomenon was not acceptable and while government
would strive to ensure that it took all precautions, people cannot take
law into their hands.

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Case 2 - NIMBYism is a Trash Crisis for Southern India (19 Oct. 2015)
Cities in the Indian state of Kerala don’t want to be the home of badly
needed trash facilities in an urbanizing India
Kerala has a trash problem. Villages in the southern India state have
become the site of enormous dumping grounds, few of them planned in
any significant way. Even garbage facilities created with some degree of
foresight present a serious challenge for the state.
In Vilappilsala, a village near Trivandrum (the capital of Kerala), a
prominent, state-of-the-art disposal plant rapidly descended into a
disorganized dump over the course of a decade. The private corporation
selected to run the facility, which was designed to convert refuse into a
composted bio-fuel resource, elected to process only as much garbage as
was profitable. The remainder, the plant never processed at all. It simply
dumped the trash from the city of Trivandrum in the village.

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Case 2 - NIMBYism is a Trash Crisis for Southern India (19 Oct. 2015)
Today, villagers in Vilappilsala celebrate the anniversary of the
closure of the plant in 2012. But the crisis remains widespread
across the state.
“City after city is finding it cannot dump its garbage anywhere,
because villagers are turning around and saying, ‘Not in my back
yard,’” said Sunita Narain, director general for the Centre for
Science and Environment, during a talk at The Atlantic’s CityLab
2015 summit in London.

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Case 3 – Air Pollution in Delhi
Air quality in Delhi is another brewing crisis. But according to Narain, the
particular NIMBYism issues affecting India also represent an opportunity for
planning.
Cities must learn to minimize their garbage through strategies such as
household composting. India does not need to learn to adopt bicycles or
avoid junk food, she said, the way that London’s middle class has (for
example) in the wake of development centered around the automobile.
“The only horrendous problem is what you do with cars, because pollution
from cars goes into everybody’s airshed,” Narain said.
Solving some of the growing problems in India (such as air quality) will
depend on steering India’s development toward public transit and amenities.
India does not have to follow the West’s path toward industrialization.
NIMBYism as a mode of growth has already taken its toll on one Indian
state.

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Case 4 – A Metro Line in Search of a Car Shed (Dec.21, 2019 09:31 IST)
Protests began in September when Mumbai Metro Rail’s plan to
cut around 2,700 trees in Aarey Colony became public knowledge.
The MMRC succeeded in chopping down 2,141 of the permitted
2,185 tree to make space for a car depot for the Colaba-Bandra-
Seepz Metro.
MMRCL is under pressure as the first trains are expected to arrive
by November 2020. With no car shed, the trains have no place to
be parked.
The Metro Line 3 corridor is expected to cost ₹23,136 crore, of
which the Japanese International Cooperation Agency will provide
₹13,325 crore as loan. However there have been lot of protests
from residents.

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Case 4 – A Metro Line in Search of a Car Shed (Dec.21, 2019 09:31 IST)
It all began five years ago when the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation
Limited (MMRCL) pasted notices on trees inside Aarey Milk Colony.
The notices meant that 2,298 trees were going to be cut and the
corporation had invited objections to the same.
What followed were a series of meetings at Aarey and demonstrations
across the city.
A human chain was formed on Marine Drive and several protesters
hugged trees at the car shed site, à la Chipko movement.
The movement received the support of Thackeray’s son, Aaditya, as well
as his Raj Thackeray’s outfit, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, as early
as 2015. The central demand of the protesters was to scrap the car shed
for the underground metro corridor and relocate it elsewhere.

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PK Das, architect and chairperson of Mumbai Waterfronts
Centre, is Thank You