Comment by Gormo

> She said individuals, activists should have the right to veto new developments in their neighborhoods.

That's a big contradiction in her overall message -- NIMBYism is just another kind of central planning.

Stopping the government from doing bad things with other people's property is a worthwhile goal. Enabling the government to stop people from making their own choices with their own property is not, and inhibits the very engine of vitality that Jacobs praised.