(单词翻译:单击)
It’s tough to admit, but sometimes NIMBYs have a point.
承认这一点很难，但有时邻避主义者有其道理所在。
In Denver, I spoke with dozens of community leaders, elected officials, and voters who live near the Park Hill Golf Course.
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。
Opponents of the project raised concerns about preserving open spaces, about gentrification, about the democratic process itself.
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。
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.”
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”。
Leslie Herod, a Colorado state representative and an unsuccessful candidate in this year’s mayoral race, also opposes the proposal.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
“We’re not talking about development in places where people have privilege,” she told me.
“我们不讨论在人们享有特权的地方进行开发，”她告诉我。
“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.”
“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。”
Some voters told me they simply distrusted the process.
一些选民告诉我，他们只是不信任这个过程。
“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.
“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。
Of course, no project can solve every problem or skirt every concern.
当然，没有一个项目可以解决所有问题或避开所有顾虑。
Comparison shopping for umbrellas is fine on a sunny day.
晴天比较着购买雨伞没问题。
When you’re caught in a torrential downpour, it’s wise to take what’s available and run for cover.
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。
For their part, proponents of the Park Hill project, in their eagerness to win votes, tended to oversell what it could accomplish.
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。
Some described it as a blow against racism or climate change, or a way to help the working class.
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。
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.
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。
