Edited sentence: ") Another such acronym is BANANA ("Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody.Aspen, Colorado, and Marin County, California, are well known examples of that phenomenon.Highly restrictive land-use regulations are often imposed at the expense of middle class would-be homeowners who are excluded from desirable suburban communities by regulations that boost housing costs beyond levels of affordability by ordinary people.The problem is that those who do not yet own homes in a restrictively regulated community cannot vote there to make regulations less restrictive, so the exclusionary regulation process is self-perpetuating and allows those already on the inside to raise figurative drawbrifges leading into their desirable suburbs, keeping others out.The truth lies somewhere in the middle.This exclusionary attitude is soetimes called the NIMBY syndrome (from the slogan "Not In My Back Yard