I agree. Obviously too much NIMBY is possible, but in general I appreciate that local people get a say in, how their own local environment should or shouldn't be transformed. The alternative, where some nebulous central agency or authority(which lives nowhere, and doesn't have to live with or in the result) decides which areas should be developed how, sounds horrible to me.. "Let's just plonk some more skyscrapers down on this lot, next to these other blocks of skyscrapers".

That said, in my local city, possibility of financing and no concrete loud protests seems to be enough to 'plunk down hi-rises'. I hope some will like the results, because pretty it's definitely not. And it won't be cheap housing either.