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Some places I have lived near in Maine (I know, way far off from here) recognized the kill of sprawl and have made the newer sub-divisions a 2-5 acre minimum. This way it still preserves wildlife and your back yard still has many trees! Maybe places that are sprawling too much will take on this good advise, and at least some areas will have less houses in them? Hopeful....
That may work in a place like ME, which has a low population, but try that in NC, especially central NC. You would have homes going for $1,000,000+. No normal person could afford to live in the area, and everyone would be driving in. That being said that assumes you'd even have a city to work in.
I wish that people would invest in the older homes that are available for purchase. North Raleigh has some older sub-divisions with GREAT homes just begging to be bought up and renovated.
I wish that people would invest in the older homes that are available for purchase. North Raleigh has some older sub-divisions with GREAT homes just begging to be bought up and renovated.
That is easy to answer, the people with older homes in those developed areas want too much money. Everyone insists that real estate appreciates, but the way I look at it, a structure which is a majority of the cost of a property is only degrading over time, unless the owners put time/money into it to keep it up.
What I can get for 350k in Holly Springs, versus in the middle of Cary tells that story very well. For an extra 20 minutes on my commute everyday I get to live in a much nicer home, that is brand new.
Or I could move into a smaller house that is going to need to have a lot of money dumped into it. Not a hard decision.
Because I grew up in Louisburg, of course I want Greater Raleigh to inch ever so closer, bringing its sophistication along with it.
However, rampant unchecked growth driven by developer greed preying on desperate rural land owners yields the suburban ghettos of tomorrow.
Rolesville's explosion of treeless subdivisions in every direction is exploiting young families' desire for the American dream (a backyard for the kids) that's within reach (affordable). But at what cost to the community? Rolesville needs to be building an infrastructure of roads and mixed-use development to enhance accessibility to everything. You should not have to get in the car and drive to buy a roll of toilet paper.
I think subdivisions should be banned, and most certainly cul-de-sacs without thru-street access. What ever happened to the classic small town with a grid of streets and no HOA's?
Some places I have lived near in Maine (I know, way far off from here) recognized the kill of sprawl and have made the newer sub-divisions a 2-5 acre minimum. This way it still preserves wildlife and your back yard still has many trees! Maybe places that are sprawling too much will take on this good advise, and at least some areas will have less houses in them? Hopeful....
Talk about encouraging sprawl! There wouldn't be a piece of undisturbed land left with the growth they are projecting here.
Some places I have lived near in Maine (I know, way far off from here) recognized the kill of sprawl and have made the newer sub-divisions a 2-5 acre minimum. This way it still preserves wildlife and your back yard still has many trees! Maybe places that are sprawling too much will take on this good advise, and at least some areas will have less houses in them? Hopeful....
I wouldn't want to see that near the immediate city areas, but I can see the benefit a little further out. Otherwise the dense growth will continue outward until such point as they hit the mountains and the ocean. Then what? No more trees left anwhere.
There are many places in the country that do exactly what you are talking about and by all accounts it works out great. There are many articles written about it.
So when development reaches unincorporated communities what do you guys think will happen? Do you think places like New Hill and Willow Springs will become their own towns or do you think they'll get annexed and just be a little district, kind of like "Carpenter" in Cary?
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