Important research on NIMBYism. The most disheartening finding is that "commission votes are correlated with commenters’ preferences". By now, commissioners should know that commenters are not representative of the population, and yet they tend to follow the sentiments of a few selected busybodies.
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Andrew Heiss
This new AJPS paper by Alexander Sahn is a methodological tour de force, using tens of thousands of comments to show how public hearing commenters are older, white, NIMBY homeowners who exert extreme influence on zoning decisions at public meetings doi.org/10.1111/ajps... #polisky #PAsky
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