“I’m not a NIMBY, I just don’t believe housing should be built in my backyard”

Dave Chappelle successfully extorted his village council into stopping the development of an affordable housing project:

Oberer Homes can move forward with a new development in Yellow Springs, but without an affordable housing component initially promised to the village, after council voted against the village’s own plan Monday night.

The village and Oberer had worked together to produce a plan that would include duplexes and affordable housing along with single-family homes in a 53-acre area along Spillan Road at the south edge of town.

The village initially asked for the development to advance affordable housing in the village, including an area that the village would later be able to develop into affordable housing, as well as more duplexes and townhomes.

But Monday night, after complaints from numerous residents, including comedian Dave Chappelle, village council voted 2-2 with one member recusing himself on the revised “planned unit development” zoning.

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Multiple Yellow Springs villagers, including entertainer Dave Chappelle, lobbied against the project. Chappelle even threatened to pull his business interests from the village, which include a plan for a restaurant called “Firehouse Eatery” and comedy club called “Live from YS.”

Chappelle’s company, Iron Table Holdings LLC, bought the former Miami Twp. fire station at 225 Corry St. in December.

Chappelle repeated his threat again on Monday night in the village council meeting.

“I am not bluffing,” he said. “I will take it all off the table.”

After the story went viral, his spokespeople denied that he is a NIMBY, with self-refuting results:

“Without question, Dave Chappelle cares about Yellow Springs. He’s sewn into the fabric of the Village,” Carla Sims, spokesperson for Dave Chappelle, told The Hollywood Reporter. “Neither Dave nor his neighbors are against affordable housing, however, they are against the poorly vetted, cookie-cutter, sprawl-style development deal which has little regard for the community, culture and infrastructure of the Village.” 

Amazing how only the affordable housing was “cookie cutter” and “poorly vetted” and “sprawl-style.” What are the odds?