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7
Many developers and advocates say NIMBY resistance is rising. A recent national survey found that overall opposition to local development was up 5 percent in 2007 from the year before. “It’s a bare-knuckle fight out there between progress and protecting the status quo,” said NIMBY expert Patrick Slevin, former mayor of Safety Harbor , Fla. , and CEO of The Slevin Group, a Tallahassee , Fla.- based public relations firm specializing in land-use issues. The country has moved from “a NIMBY nation to a BANANA republic,” said Slevin, explaining that BANANA is an acronym for Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone.
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