Planning Acronyms

[Planderella]

I stumbled across an old email with these acronyms that I'm sure most of you are familiar with. I'd like to see some new ones added to the list so have at it.........

NIMBY -Not In My Backyard

NOPE - Not On Planet Earth

NOOS - Not On Our Street

LULU - Locally Unwanted Land Uses

NIMTOO - Not In My Term Of Office

CAVE - Citizens Against Virtually Everything

 

[City Goddess]

We have SAVE. They are the Seniors Against Virtually Everything. They are even against using scooters on the sidewalks and are trying to impose a speed limit on our sidewalks!

 

[Tranplanner]

BANANA - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything

 

[Chet]

DINK - Dual Income No Kids

 

[Cardinal]

SOREASS - Save Our Rural Estates And Stop Subdividing.

They've already built their Vinyl Villa in the countryside, now they want to keep the others out so they can enjoy the views.

 

[jmf]

COTCOOL - Citizens Opposed To Control Of Our Land

And if you are going to start with DINK

SINK - single income no kids
SUNK - single unemployed no kids
- I am sure there are some others

 

[GeogPlanner]

WE-BEs

usually applied to civil servants in regards to thier political bosses...i most recently heard it regarding a CE staff and its lack of response:

We be here before you and we be here after you...

 

[Jeff]

AICP .... A**hole In Community Planning

AICP ... Any Idiot Can Plan

 

[utahman]

what does T & E stand for?

 

[mgk920]

BANANA - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything

I thought that 'BANANA' was 'Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody'.

Mike

 

[Gedunker]

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LULU - Locally Unwanted Land Uses
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I had always heard this one as "Unpopular".

 

[Tide]

I Heard a new one to me last month and want to share since a search for it showed nothing.

WIIFMs (pronounced Wiff-Ums) it's the "What's In It For Me" bunch.

 

[zman]

Here we deal with a lot of:

WOOFs (Well Off Older Folks)

and the occasional

SITCOM (Single Income Two Children Opressive Mortgage)

These two kinds exist mainly in large estate housing developments on the outskirts of town. They would like to close the door behind them, demonstrating an attitude of "I can move out here... but no one else..."

 

[ofos]

BOHICA - Bend Over Here It Comes Again

Not purely a planning acronym, but one of my favorites and applicable to many situations.

 

[dandy_warhol]

what does T & E stand for?

i've understood it to be Time & Expenses.

 

[luckless pedestrian]

I love the ones posted plus these:

CEQA: Consultants Employment Quality Act [California Environmental Quality Act]

DBTD/DBTN: Two common vaccines used by planners to “fix” a project they don’t like. DBTD is technically Death By a Thousand Days and DBTN is Death By a Thousand Nicks [also known as the BED Principle—“Bleed ‘em Dry”]

DUDE: Developer Under Delusions of Entitlement

GOAH Gedoudaheah

GOOMBA Get out of my business area

GUMBY Gaze upon my backyard [Opponents of residential walls and fences]

KIIMBY Keep it in my backyard

NIABY Not in anyone’s backyard

NIMD Not in my district

NIMEY Not in my election year

NIMFOS Not in my field of sight

NIMFYE Not in my front yard either

NITL Not in this lifetime

NORF No observable redeeming features

NOT None of that

NOTE Not over there either

NUMBY Not under my backyard

PIITBY Put it in their backyard

QUIMBY Quit urbanizing in my backyard

 

[arcplans]

Are the some regional planning acronyms? Here in northern California, we have names for our fellow BATs (Bay Area Transplants).