Index:
Planners Jargon Explained (Based on 'Plannereese' from the IES-APA website at www.ies-apa.org/humor.htm - soon to be published with some UK slang!)
BANANA
Build Absolutely Nothing Anytime Near Anything
LULU
Locally Unwanted Land Use
Negative Traffic Impact:
Traffic jam.
Neighbourhood:
Any collection of hitherto unacquainted
individuals with physically proximate homes who find themselves suddenly united
in vigorous opposition to unpalatable change, especially a rezoning,
development, or road. (See "Nimbyism", "LULU", and "Community")
NETMA:
Nobody ever tells me anything.
New Settlements:
Places built especially
to keep planners in a job.
Nimbyism:
DANYs = Developers Against NIMBYs.
GOOMBY =
Get Out Of My Back Yard.
KIIMBY = Keep It In My Back
Yard.
NIABY = Not in Anyone's Back Yard
NIMBY = Not In My Back Yard
NIMC = Not In My
Constituency
NIMEY = Not In My Election Year.
NIMFYE = Not In My Front
Yard Either.
NIMTOO = Not In My Term Of Office.
NUMBY = Not Under My Back Yard
(aims to keep some nasty underground feature out of the neighbourhood)
PIITBY = Put it in
their back yard.
Nine Circles of Hell (from Dante's Inferno)
Circle One:
Limbo - Good projects that died in bad places.
Circle Two: Technical Torture
- When legislative interpretations confront good sense.
Circle Three:
Inherited Sins - Old approvals implemented today.
Circle Four: Unmet
Expectations - Projects that meet standards, but community tastes have
changed.
Circle Five: Neighbour vs. Neighbour (I) - Conflicts between legal,
conforming uses.
Circle Six: Neighbour vs. Neighbour (II) - Conflicts caused
by illegal uses.
Circle Seven: More Than One Master - Inter-Departmental
projects.
Circle Eight: Mobile Homes - (enough said!).
Circle Nine:
Potential Chaos - Ballot box planning in extremis.
NOPE
Not on Planners Earth.
NOT
"We’ll have None of That" Syndrome. (See
"Nimbyism")
Number Cooking (Number Massaging)
Manipulation of statistics for a specific goal of 'cookbook planning'.
Conversion of "raw" data. (See "number crunching")
Number Crunching
Statistical cuisine-art processing prior to "number cooking."
PAP
Politicians Against Planners or Planners Against Planners
SLAP
Strategic Lawsuits Against Planners
WAR
World Against Planning
and finally, did you know
Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected. Carefully planned projects take four times longer to complete than expected, mostly because the planners expect their planning to reduce the time it takes.