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**Yes In Many Back Yards (original usage, 1988. See [[YIMBY_movement|YIMBY_movement]]). <br/>
*'''YIMFY!''' - Yes In My Front Yard!<br/> Used by group in Seattle's
▲*'''YIMFY!''' - Yes In My Front Yard!<br/> Used by group in Seattle's Ravenna neighborhood, North Link Neighbors for 12th, in support of putting a light-rail line alignment in their area in 2011. <br/> [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/421790321323415193. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/421790321323415193. ]<br/> "YIMFY! Yes In My Front Yard - Light Rail Belongs in Roosevelt's Core. From April 28th 2014 rededication of Brenda the successful tunnel borer from the Capitol Hill leg, now working on the Roosevelt Station Link. Seattle's U District projects!"<br/> See post about the situation at [http://council.seattle.gov/2011/12/22/four-truths-about-the-roosevelt-rezone/].
*'''YIOBY''' - Yes In Our Backyard. Apparently coined by Laura Loe Berstein (@YIMBYsea), Seattle. <br/>
*'''YIYBY:''' ''Yes, In Your Back Yard''. Probably perjorative variant of "YIMBY," suggesting that YIMBY advocates a) don't have yards of their own, and/or b) are really talking about build in other people's back yards. <br/> Seen in letter to the editor of ''East Bay Times ''by George Doddington, of ''Walnut Creek, NOV 17 2016. h''ttps://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/11/17/letter-yimbyers-actually-have-no-backyards/. <br/>
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