It’s tough to admit, but sometimes NIMBYs have a point.[qh]
承认这一点很难,但有时邻避主义者有其道理所在
In Denver, I spoke with dozens of community leaders, elected officials, and voters who live near the Park Hill Golf Course. [qh]
在丹佛,我采访了住在帕克山高尔夫球场附近的几十位社区领袖、民选官员和其他选民
Opponents of the project raised concerns about preserving open spaces, about gentrification, about the democratic process itself.[qh]
关于保留开放空间、中产阶级化与民主进程本身,该项目的反对者提出了担忧
Former Mayor Wellington Webb told me he opposes developing the Park Hill site because it’s “the last piece of open space, land, in Denver.”[qh]
前市长惠灵顿·韦伯告诉我,他反对开发帕克山地块,因为这块地是“丹佛最后一块开放空间和土地”
Leslie Herod, a Colorado state representative and an unsuccessful candidate in this year’s mayoral race, also opposes the proposal. [qh]
科罗拉多州代表、今年竞选市长落选的莱斯利·希罗德也反对这项提议
She told me she had identified more than 80 underutilized city-owned lots already zoned for residential development where she would rather see housing built.[qh]
她告诉我,她已经确定了80多块未充分利用的市属土地,这些土地已经被划为住宅开发用地,她更希望看到在这些地方建房子
The Denver city-council member Candi CdeBaca made a version of the “other places” argument too, questioning why development efforts are never focused on wealthy neighborhoods. [qh]
丹佛市议会成员坎迪·卡德巴卡也提出了“另寻他处”的观点,质疑为什么开发工作从来没有集中在富裕社区
“We’re not talking about development in places where people have privilege,” she told me. [qh]
“我们不讨论在人们享有特权的地方进行开发,”她告诉我
“Those places are protected with their zoning, those places are protected with their level of engagement, those places are protected by the people they have elected to represent them.”[qh]
“这些地方受到分区的保护,这些地方受到人们参与程度的保护,这些地方受到他们所选代表的保护
Some voters told me they simply distrusted the process.[qh]
一些选民告诉我,他们只是不信任这个过程
“There’s no guarantee that if the conservation easement is lifted that the [developer] will honor what they’ve said with creating a park, creating affordable housing,” a landscape architect with an antidevelopment yard sign said.[qh]
“没人能保证,如果解除保护地役权,(开发商)就会兑现他们建造一个公园以及建造经济适用房的承诺,”一位举着“反对开发庭院”牌子的景观设计师说
Of course, no project can solve every problem or skirt every concern. [qh]
当然,没有一个项目可以解决所有问题或避开所有顾虑
Comparison shopping for umbrellas is fine on a sunny day. [qh]
晴天比较着购买雨伞没问题
When you’re caught in a torrential downpour, it’s wise to take what’s available and run for cover.[qh]
当你被倾盆大雨淋到时,明智的做法是利用可用物品、寻找避雨处
For their part, proponents of the Park Hill project, in their eagerness to win votes, tended to oversell what it could accomplish. [qh]
对帕克山项目的支持者来说,由于急于赢得选票,他们往往会夸大该项目可能取得的成就
Some described it as a blow against racism or climate change, or a way to help the working class. [qh]
一些人将其描述为对种族主义或气候变化的打击,或是帮助工人阶级的一种方式
In my conversations with the plan’s backers, I sometimes had to remind myself that we were talking about a 155-acre lot, not the fate of the republic.[qh]
在与该计划支持者的交谈中,我有时不得不提醒自己,我们谈论的是一块155英亩的土地,而不是共和国的命运