NIMBY's raise their ugly heads again on Munjoy Hill

You want to do what? Build a triple-decker in my neighborhood? I don’t think so.

That’s the attitude taken by 15 Munjoy Hill residents objecting to a modern triple decker hoping to be built in Portland. The Portland Press Herald reports that a bunch of folks are up in arms about the proposed design of the building (it’s the building below that’s on the right).

The project complies with the city’s zoning requirements, but some neighbors just don’t like how it looks. One complains that it blocks a public vista of the water. This vista, the group explains in a letter to the Planning Board, is a "wonderful example of public access to the extraordinary beauty of Portland and its harbor, so often available only to a privileged few."

So because you’re some of those privileged few, you should have the right to prevent someone from erecting a perfectly fine looking building that might interfere with your water view?

Please. Give me a freaking break.

The building doesn’t look much different than the other 1000 triple-deckers on the Hill. Sure it’s a little more modern, so what? I’m certain if it was proposed as being all brick, or even looking exactly like that relic to the left of the above picture, some neighbors would crab about it.

Get over yourselves.

Comments

[Yeoman]

We have this problem, oddly enough, with wind generators.

They're putting them up everywhere, but all of a sudden, there's all sorts of opposition.

We've had oil rigs and mines forever, and there's no opposition, or darned near none, to them. But now the owners of 40 acre weedettes, who have already gone out and destroyed a piece of the prairie, are up in arms about wind generators.