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California is full of NIMBYs hence the large amount of homelessness.
Yes it is crazy, Laguna Beach residents fought tooth and nail to block Rivian redoing that building. Apparently the residents felt that a dilapidated empty building was much better for the area.
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Yes it is crazy, Laguna Beach residents fought tooth and nail to block Rivian redoing that building. Apparently the residents felt that a dilapidated empty building was much better for the area.
They would have probably rather had a McDonald's with two drive-thrus than a restored 1930's vintage movie theatre.

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NIMBY - Another acronym I didn't know.
 

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We’ll bring it to nearby Irvine. Plenty of parks and much better parking! No ocean backdrop but at least I suspect Irvine knows their value to the city!
 

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Would love to have a mid sized and trade in our Model Y for an R2.

Two Rivians would be nice ?. One for the entire family and one for everything else.
 

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I'm amazed how well info on the R2 has been contained. No drawings, no mules with camo, no talk, nothing. No hint about the headlights. The secrecy is truly impressive. Must be NDA's with real teeth.
 

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I'm amazed how well info on the R2 has been contained. No drawings, no mules with camo, no talk, nothing. No hint about the headlights. The secrecy is truly impressive. Must be NDA's with real teeth.
I know a few people that have seen drawings of the R2 vehicles, I haven't pushed on them at all about details because I know it would mean losing their job if it was found out they disclosed anything.
 

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...Apparently many residents are complaining Rivian was even allowed to develop the property to begin with. Nuts.
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What did Rivian actually withdraw?

The whole event or the use of the grassy knoll area across the street on the beach side?

They can easily do the reveal using the LB hub inside and the PCH in front.
 
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I'm amazed how well info on the R2 has been contained. No drawings, no mules with camo, no talk, nothing. No hint about the headlights. The secrecy is truly impressive. Must be NDA's with real teeth.
Having listend to RJ talk about how the company managed to design the R1 while they went dark on the How I built this podcast seem to be their SOP.
 

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I would say they should do the reveal in GA, but that would mean shipping the model. That introduces more risk than is probably worth it. It also shortens their time to finish prep, since they'd have to allow at least a few days for shipping.
 

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That’s a real shame. A launch in Laguna would have been a lot of fun.
Y'all.
There will still be a launch event in Laguna Beach. It will just limited to invite-only, at the flagship store / theater.

This park was likely to be the only publicly accessible event coinciding with the launch.
Karen said we can't all have nice things so Rivian took it away.

(Karen will probably still be eating free ice cream at the launch because; "Do you know who my husband is?!?!" aka her husband is on city council and will get her in.)
 

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So interesting that two very different groups of people (geographically and socioeconomically) who likely have very little in common both mobilized NIMBY campaigns against Rivian.
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