But it is onyl in this town that NIMBYism FAR outweights reality. NYC *is* getting developments up the @ss and, while I don't agree with NIMBYism, I can see why some people there might want to slow things down a little.

Philadelphia, on the other hand, has seem next to nothing since the early 90's. That incldues the so-called and VERY mis-named "boom" of recent years that ahs so far produced only ONE finished "skyscraper" (the St. James). Yet, despite that, people are railing and raving mad about "all the development" and how we're "selling our souls".

What's more is that NIMBYism here is based in some VERY conservative provincial beleifs such as the belief that buildings should not be taller than 25 floors (oft expressed in Philadelphia), how density will cause there to be "too many people" (and, yet, alot of these same people go to Manhattan on the weekends beacuse they like the "energy" of the place), and how it'll take away from the colonial character of the city (as if this city really has much of a colonial character). That's all fine and good if Philadelphia is to be a northern Charleston. I don't see, however, how you can run a major city and yet have it bend over backwards jsut to appease some very vocal Luddites. I mean we're talking about a city where people even oppose 5-story row houses as being "too tall"! What is this? Colonial Williamsburg????