alt Hacker NewsThere is a large forest near your local community. You and others often walk in the forest and kids play there. Its calming and has been there forever.
The state wants your community to turn it into apartments, but obviously the community is icey about it.
Then activists from another city dozens of miles away, who have never cared for your town or really been to it, show up at Town Hall meetings and are scheduling meetings with town councilors to push for building the apartments.
Those out of town people jumping into your community to dictate change are the YIYBY people.
If the apartments are built, they'll put another feather in their cap while walking around the forest near their home.
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> large forest near your local community.
Who owns the forest and why do you think you get to say if people build on it or not?
Why would they cut down the forest to turn it into apartments? It's more economical to bulldoze existing single-family homes and do it there. The roads are already built, you'd just need to upgrade utilities and so on. There are people living in those single-family homes who would gladly take the opportunity to sell their land for higher than market value but are prevented from doing so.
It's more common for forests to be cut down because dense housing is illegal, so cities have to keep expanding outwards.