Editorial: NIMBYs winning fight over Roux Institute plan

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 9, 2022

To make some neighbors happy, a 20-year plan for a landmark university campus and innovation hub has been revised to provide a little less of everything. It’s too soon to know whether these changes will be enough to satisfy the neighbors, but one thing is completely clear: the NIMBYs are winning. The fight over what should happen to the old B&M baked bean cannery is typical of the kind of conflict that chokes progress all over Maine. The NIMBYs shouldn’t be allowed to win this time.