for Greater Yes-In-My-Backyard Success
The secret to confidently prevailing against NIMBY forces is possessing a B.A.R. | Bold Audacious Resilient code mindset. This authentic perspective transcends the “flying under the radar” mentality that too often empowers the opposition to defeat good development projects.
B.A.R. | Bold Audacious Resilient
B.A.R.
Bold Audacious Resilient
BOLD:
The opposition is expecting you to be flying under the radar, ready for ambushing, so why continue to play into their hands? To consistently prevail against NIMBY forces you must possess a “Go Big or Go Home” attitude.
Being BOLD is calling up the courage to scrap the false securities promised by the archaic notice and hearing process. Being BOLD means no longer trusting past successes that betray hubris and create operational blind spots.
Advantages of being BOLD:
- The opposition expects a developer’s conventional avoidance in the public square for a shock and awe attack, so being BOLD steals their thunder and rips away pages from their playbook.
- Flying under the radar is relegated to tactical usage.
- Developers summon the courage to take the road less traveled for NIMBY risk mitigation.
- Elected officials feed off of your confidence and anticipation of NIMBYism as part of your application and permitting plans.
- It’s BOLD to expect the opposition to surface and to have strategic and tactical plans in place ahead of it—ensuring greater control over your project’s destiny—every time!
BOLD:
The opposition is expecting you to be flying under the radar, ready for ambushing, so why continue to play into their hands? To consistently prevail against NIMBY forces you must possess a “Go Big or Go Home” attitude.
Being BOLD is calling up the courage to scrap the false securities promised by the archaic notice and hearing process. Being BOLD means no longer trusting past successes that betray hubris and create operational blind spots.
Advantages of being BOLD:
- The opposition expects a developer’s conventional avoidance in the public square for a shock and awe attack, so being BOLD steals their thunder and rips away pages from their playbook.
- Flying under the radar is relegated to tactical usage.
- Developers summon the courage to take the road less traveled for NIMBY risk mitigation.
- Elected officials feed off of your confidence and anticipation of NIMBYism as part of your application and permitting plans.
- It’s BOLD to expect the opposition to surface and to have strategic and tactical plans in place ahead of it—ensuring greater control over your project’s destiny—every time!
AUDACIOUS:
Thinking “outside the box” empowers you and your teams to relentlessly enact the YIMBY mindset. This perspective is driven by innovation, creativity, and situational awareness.
Expect the opposition to show itself and play into your strategic hands. That’s not only AUDACIOUS, but smart planning to preempt and prevail against expected opposition.
Advantages of being AUDACIOUS:
- When the opposition shows itself, it’s no longer shocking, but a matter of doing business.
- Opposition no longer puts you into defensive, reactive weakness.
- You now operate from the strategic high ground in a proactive, responsive posture.
- NIMBY forces are part of your standard operating procedure.
- Conflict is proactively downgraded to local concerns being thoughtfully addressed in corporate good neighbor fashion.
- The news media is a resource for fair to favorable press coverage.
- Being AUDACIOUS means nothing surprises you; every move by the opposition has been anticipated and accounted for well in advance.
AUDACIOUS:
Thinking “outside the box” empowers you and your teams to relentlessly enact the YIMBY mindset. This perspective is driven by innovation, creativity, and situational awareness.
Expect the opposition to show itself and play into your strategic hands. That’s not only AUDACIOUS, but smart planning to preempt and prevail against expected opposition.
Advantages of being AUDACIOUS:
- When the opposition shows itself, it’s no longer shocking, but a matter of doing business.
- Opposition no longer puts you into defensive, reactive weakness.
- You now operate from the strategic high ground in a proactive, responsive posture.
- NIMBY forces are part of your standard operating procedure.
- Conflict is proactively downgraded to local concerns being thoughtfully addressed in corporate good neighbor fashion.
- The news media is a resource for fair to favorable press coverage.
- Being AUDACIOUS means nothing surprises you; every move by the opposition has been anticipated and accounted for well in advance.
RESILIENT:
Adversity is unavoidable and part of the path to success. Adversity is a teacher. Adversity activates achievement. Adversity makes you stronger, smarter, and self-aware.
RESILENCE accepts adversity as the breeding ground for persistence and endurance that overcomes any would-be NIMBY attack and crisis. Embrace adversity as an advantage to successfully get your projects across the finish line.
Advantages of being RESILIENT:
- RESILIENCE turns chaos into controlling the destiny of your projects.
- It slows down the opposition, which wants to sprint toward an early and unfavorable vote.
- It cultivates calm in a crisis, minimizing the missteps and mistakes that could be fatal to the project.
- It buys time to reengage stakeholders who influence the license to operate.
- It gives the opposition the political rope to hang itself in the public square.
- It shows decision makers and allies that you and the merits of the project can endure NIMBY attacks—gaining their confidence and cultivating political cover.
- It continuously updates and expands new lessons learned, helping hone best practices for the next project.
RESILIENT:
Adversity is unavoidable and part of the path to success. Adversity is a teacher. Adversity activates achievement. Adversity makes you stronger, smarter, and self-aware.
RESILENCE accepts adversity as the breeding ground for persistence and endurance that overcomes any would-be NIMBY attack and crisis. Embrace adversity as an advantage to successfully get your projects across the finish line.
Advantages of being RESILIENT:
- RESILIENCE turns chaos into controlling the destiny of your projects.
- It slows down the opposition, which wants to sprint toward an early and unfavorable vote.
- It cultivates calm in a crisis, minimizing the missteps and mistakes that could be fatal to the project.
- It buys time to reengage stakeholders who influence the license to operate.
- It gives the opposition the political rope to hang itself in the public square.
- It shows decision makers and allies that you and the merits of the project can endure NIMBY attacks—gaining their confidence and cultivating political cover.
- It continuously updates and expands new lessons learned, helping hone best practices for the next project.
How to Enact Your B.A.R. Code
for YIMBY Success
The B.A.R. code mindset is easily and seamlessly applied to any project, team, or organization. You cannot have a continuity of YIMBY success without this key perspective underwriting your strategies, best practices, and organizational leadership.
Patrick Slevin has leveraged his B.A.R. code approach to the benefit of projects and organizations large and small, ranging from one-off crisis projects to national development companies looking for more continuity across their regions and projects.
Immediate Impacts of Implementing a B.A.R. Code:
- The heat of the NIMBY crisis is immediately defused, keeping your application viable.
- The notice and hearing process is less of a liability (fostering NIMBY conflicts).
- NIMBY forces lose the ability to hijack your project to create public conflict and political chaos.
- Public officials remain confident in the political cover you’re providing, even during an election year.
- The news media is framed to report accurate and persuasive pro-project narratives.
- Project developers see a bigger picture and manage with confident community communication and stakeholder engagement.
- Third parties become more recruitable for coalition and individual advocacy.
- Your company’s reputation is leveraged to persuasively define the project versus project crisis adversely defining your company.
- You’re always in control over the fate of your projects, even in times of NIMBY conflict.
- You operate in positive, proactive fashion from the crucial strategic high ground.
- Nothing surprises you and your team; contingencies are put into place that are ready at a moment’s notice to mitigate and neutralize NIMBY forces.
New NIMBY Book
Coming Out Summer 2025
As a two-time #1 Amazon bestselling author on the NIMBY subject matter, Patrick Slevin is coming out with his third and most profound book, The NIMBY Obstacle is the Way: Timeless Wisdom for Relentless YIMBY Success.
In his upcoming bestseller, Patrick breaks down timeless knowledge driving his B.A.R. code approach to succeeding not just against NIMBY controversies, but in life in general. You can find his first two bestsellers, Never Lose to NIMBY Opposition Again!and Breaking Out of the NIMBY Matrix on Amazon and on this website.
If you would like to be notified of upcoming book launch promotions or speaking tour opportunities, or receive a free initial consultation with Patrick about a project, you can contact him directly at P.SL7@patrickslevin.com.
New NIMBY Book
Coming Out Summer 2025
As a two-time #1 Amazon bestselling author on the NIMBY subject matter, Patrick Slevin is coming out with his third and most profound book, The NIMBY Obstacle is the Way: Timeless Wisdom for Relentless YIMBY Success.
In his upcoming bestseller, Patrick breaks down timeless knowledge driving his B.A.R. code approach to succeeding not just against NIMBY controversies, but in life in general. You can find his first two bestsellers, Never Lose to NIMBY Opposition Again!and Breaking Out of the NIMBY Matrix on Amazon and on this website.
If you would like to be notified of upcoming book launch promotions or speaking tour opportunities, or receive a free initial consultation with Patrick about a project, you can contact him directly at P.SL7@patrickslevin.com.
Patrick Slevin is a former Florida mayor, #1 Amazon bestselling author on NIMBY opposition, national YIMBY speaker, and publisher of the NIMBY Insider newsletter. He leads SL7 Consulting, a public affairs and crisis management firm specializing in high-stakes real estate and land-use campaigns.
Over a 30-year career, Patrick has advised clients from California to New York on projects spanning Northern Michigan to South Florida. He has educated, trained, and counseled thousands of real estate developers, corporate executives, and land-use professionals on how to prevent, pre-empt, and prevail against NIMBY opposition.
Patrick is a two-time winner of the prestigious Public Relations Society of America’s Silver Anvil Award of Excellence in crisis and issues management. He has been recognized as one of the nation’s top political “Movers & Shakers” by Campaigns & Elections Magazine and featured in Influence Magazine as a “Great Communicator.”
Learn more about Patrick’s work and services at www.PatrickSlevin.com.