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The original term [[NIMBY_concept|NIMBY]] has inspired many spin-off terms, including [[YIMBY_concept|YIMBY]]. Here are some we've found, you are welcome to add your finds or suggestions: |
The original term [[NIMBY_concept|NIMBY]] has inspired many spin-off terms, including [[YIMBY_concept|YIMBY]]. Here are some we've found, you are welcome to add your finds or suggestions: |
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*'''AHIMBY''': Affordable Housing In My Back Yard.<br/> earliest use found:<br/> Sharky Laguana @Sharkyl [https://twitter.com/Sharkyl/status/785650941634621440 6:19 PM - 10 Oct 2016]<br/> Replying to @mateosfo<br/> "Is there such a thing as a MIMBY? Or AHIMBY?" |
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Also used by Berkeley city councilmember Kate Harrison on 5 Dec 2017. <br/> Attested: https://twitter.com/tdfischer_/status/938291690586230785. |
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*'''AIMBY''': Already In My Back Yard: the position that a given land use is already concentrated in some area, and should be distributed to other areas. For example, a concentration of low-income housing or social services facilities. [contributed via Twitter from an activist in San Jose, California, opposing new Affordable Housing facilities in her neighborhood]. <br/> |
*'''AIMBY''': Already In My Back Yard: the position that a given land use is already concentrated in some area, and should be distributed to other areas. For example, a concentration of low-income housing or social services facilities. [contributed via Twitter from an activist in San Jose, California, opposing new Affordable Housing facilities in her neighborhood]. <br/> |
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**Yes In My Back Yard (primary) |
**Yes In My Back Yard (primary) |
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**Yes In Many Back Yards (original usage, 1988. See [[YIMBY_movement|YIMBY_movement]]). <br/> |
**Yes In Many Back Yards (original usage, 1988. See [[YIMBY_movement|YIMBY_movement]]). <br/> |
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*'''YIMFY!''' - Yes In My Front Yard!<br/> Used by group in Seattle's Roosevelt 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/ http://council.seattle.gov/2011/12/22/four-truths-about-the-roosevelt-rezone/].<br/> Northlink Neighborhoods for 12th: [https://web.archive.org/web/20050212143053/http://www.nln12.org:80/FAQ.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050212143053/http://www.nln12.org:80/FAQ.html].<br/> |
*'''YIMFY!''' - Yes In My Front Yard!<br/> Used by group in Seattle's Roosevelt 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/ http://council.seattle.gov/2011/12/22/four-truths-about-the-roosevelt-rezone/].<br/> Northlink Neighborhoods for 12th: [https://web.archive.org/web/20050212143053/http://www.nln12.org:80/FAQ.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050212143053/http://www.nln12.org:80/FAQ.html].<br/> |
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Revision as of 08:33, 7 February 2018
The original term NIMBY has inspired many spin-off terms, including YIMBY. Here are some we've found, you are welcome to add your finds or suggestions:
- AHIMBY: Affordable Housing In My Back Yard.
earliest use found:
Sharky Laguana @Sharkyl 6:19 PM - 10 Oct 2016
Replying to @mateosfo
"Is there such a thing as a MIMBY? Or AHIMBY?"
Also used by Berkeley city councilmember Kate Harrison on 5 Dec 2017.
Attested: https://twitter.com/tdfischer_/status/938291690586230785.
- AIMBY: Already In My Back Yard: the position that a given land use is already concentrated in some area, and should be distributed to other areas. For example, a concentration of low-income housing or social services facilities. [contributed via Twitter from an activist in San Jose, California, opposing new Affordable Housing facilities in her neighborhood].
- NIABY: Not In Anyone's Back Yard: term to describe opposition to land-uses which should not be allowed anywhere - for example, unregulated industrial polluters. Note, this is meaning mainly expressed by 'NIMBY' in Jane Anne Morris, Not In My Back Yard: The Handbook (1994), pictured at right.
- PIMBY: Please In My Back Yard. (@yimbwiki 13 Oct 2017: seems term arose in Kruibeke Polders proj, Flanders; perhaps from consultancy @Sigmaplan? via @RichardBlyth7).
- QIMBY - Quality in My Back Yard. See our article QIMBY for more on this.
- YIMBY
- Yes In My Back Yard (primary)
- Yes In Many Back Yards (original usage, 1988. See YIMBY_movement).
- YIMFY! - Yes In My Front Yard!
Used by group in Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood, North Link Neighbors for 12th, in support of putting a light-rail line alignment in their area in 2011.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/421790321323415193.
"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!"
See post about the situation at http://council.seattle.gov/2011/12/22/four-truths-about-the-roosevelt-rezone/.
Northlink Neighborhoods for 12th: https://web.archive.org/web/20050212143053/http://www.nln12.org:80/FAQ.html.
- YIOBY - Yes In Our Backyard. Apparently coined by Laura Loe Berstein (@YIMBYsea), Seattle.
- YIYBY: Yes, In Your Back Yard. Pejorative variant of "YIMBY," suggesting that YIMBY advocates a) don't have yards of their own, and/or b) are really talking about building in other people's back yards.
Seen in letter to the editor of East Bay Times by George Doddington, of Walnut Creek, NOV 17 2016. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/11/17/letter-yimbyers-actually-have-no-backyards/.
- YUPIMBY: Yuppies In My Backyard.
Yimby.Go @YimbyGo 9:07 PM - 21 Jun 2017
"Yuppies In My Back Yard"
Richard Hall @rihallix 4:39 PM - 20 Jan 2018
Replying to @SaveMarinwood @YIMBYwiki and 4 others
"#sb827 is going to create primarily Seattle like luxury apartments with rents 40% above the norm. YIMBY is changing their name to the more accurate "Yuppies in My Backyard"."
http://seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/downtown-seattles-construction-boom-surges-to-new-record-with-no-end-in-sight/.
YIMBYwiki @YIMBYwiki 4:44 PM - 20 Jan 2018
Replying to @rihallix @SaveMarinwood and 4 others
YIMBYwiki Retweeted YIMBYwiki
#BeckyOMalley in Berkeley is on that angle already https://twitter.com/yimbywiki/status/881293237310210048 … #knowyourmeme #YupIMBY
@YIMBYwiki
"we used to call them Yuppies, but now they call themselves YIMBYs": iconic Berkeley anti-houser, #BeckyOMalley
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2017-06-30/article/45849?headline=Mourning-and-moving-forward--Becky-O-Malley …
More from [Stephens 2005]:
- BANYs Builders Against NIMBYs [Not In My Backyard Activists] [
- GOAH Gedoudaheah
- GOOMBA Get out of my business area
- GUMBY Gaze upon my backyard [Opponents of residential walls and fences]
- KIIMBY Keep it in my backyard
- NIMD Not in my district
- NIMEY Not in my election year
- NIMFOS Not in my field of sight
- NIMFYE Not in my front yard either
- NIMTOO Not in my term of office
- NITL Not in this lifetime
- NOPE Not on planet earth
- NORF No observable redeeming features
- NOT None of that
- NOTE Not over there either
- NUMBY Not under my backyard
- PIITBY Put it in their backyard
- QUIMBY Quit urbanizing in my backyard
- WIIFM What’s in it for me?
References
- Morris. Jane Anne. Not In My Back Yard: The Handbook. 1994).
- Stephens, Ric (2005). "From NIMBYs To DUDEs: The Wacky World Of Plannerese." Planetizen, 26 July 2005. https://www.planetizen.com/node/152.
- Stephens, Richard (2005b). Plannerese Dictionary. Trafford On Demand, 2005. https://www.amazon.com/Plannerese-Dictionary-Richard-Stephens/dp/1412047943/.