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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。[qh]
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。[qh]
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。[qh]
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”。[qh]
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。[qh]
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。[qh]
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。[qh]
“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。[qh]
“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。”[qh]
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。[qh]
“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。[qh]
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。[qh]
Comparison shopping for umbrellas is fine on a sunny day. [qh]
晴天比较着购买雨伞没问题。[qh]
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。[qh]
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。[qh]
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。[qh]
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。[qh]
