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I think there are too many apartments, town-homes, and self storage centers. Every where I look I see these three being built. apartments are a kills...so many people in a confined space and many cars.
Wondering what this means? "At the current pace, minority populations are expected to grow to 35% by 2020, moving towards “majority minority”. What minority will move to majority?
I think there are too many apartments, town-homes, and self storage centers. Every where I look I see these three being built. apartments are a kills...so many people in a confined space and many cars.
Wondering what this means? "At the current pace, minority populations are expected to grow to 35% by 2020, moving towards “majority minority”. What minority will move to majority?
That just means that majority of residents of Wake County will be non-white. WCPSS is already minority-majority and has been for a while. Over 2/3 of the elementary schools in Wake County are minority-majority. It doesn't necessarily mean any other ethnic group will be the majority....just that whites won't be the majority.
Many of us feel congestion, habitat destruction, and traffic has increased far too quickly in our area. Evidently we're not imagining it. If you like Raleigh now, will you still love it 20 years from now?
They recently passed an ordinance in North Hills restricting the lot sizes to prevent developers from buying up 2 or 3 lots to put 4-5 houses on them. I understand this, because they aren't building small houses. They are building 3,000+ sq ft houses on small lots like in Cary. In a more established neighborhood with modest sized houses and larger lots, it does change the character of the neighborhood, and I understand why they voted for that change.
do you have a link to these changes? I had not heard of them.
as far as I know, the R-4 (just under 1/4 acre) zoning still applies.
So if you hate traffic, there's LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of room for you in this country. Millions and millions of square miles, in fact! What an amazing country!
If you want to live in the rural areas and stay there/work there, that's awesome! More power to you. If you're moving on the fringes of a city though and then want to work at a job downtown, you're contributing to the traffic problems.
do you have a link to these changes? I had not heard of them.
as far as I know, the R-4 (just under 1/4 acre) zoning still applies.
I read about it on my next door group. It doesn’t affect me, because they only wanted to include “historical” North Hills. The minimum lot size is now 14,000 sq ft.
thanks for the link. that's actually very interesting, and at the same time confusing - they're talking about requiring larger lots than currently exist - requiring basically 1/3 acre lots when R-4 calls for 1/4 acre. At face value, it will bring some teardowns to a stop since many existing lots are less than 1/3 acre, regardless of any subdividing.
Were out here in Wendell and it is a dead zone...we never like city living but always want the benefits of a large population center without being smack dab in the middle of it...and very glad of that fact. I have some friends in Holly Springs that are trying to sell out before the southern portion of I540 is built...its just progress...there will always be growth and population expansion..just a fact of life..
Not necessarily.
We once lived in NJ and went to a town named Metuchen. This town was totally anti-growth and stayed nice despite changes in the rest of NJ.
Growth can be crushed if the area really does not want it.
One thing is to totally stop long commutes by not adding new roads.
In a few years, many of the junk apartments and homes built now will start to fall apart and become new slums.
I think there are too many apartments, town-homes, and self storage centers. Every where I look I see these three being built. apartments are a kills...so many people in a confined space and many cars.
Wondering what this means? "At the current pace, minority populations are expected to grow to 35% by 2020, moving towards “majority minority”. What minority will move to majority?
Keep em out?
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