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The N&O reports that 6 of the 10 fastest-growing towns in North Carolina are in Wake County.
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Rolesville, Fuquay-Varina, Morrisville, Holly Springs, Knightdale and Wake Forest have all seen their populations grow by more than 14 percent in the three years ending July 1, 2013. Apex and Cary have grown by 10 percent, bringing Cary’s population to more than 150,000.
Wake County’s overall population has exceeded 975,000 and is expected to top 1 million sometime in the next year.
The Triangle’s two largest cities are still adding population at a healthy clip. Raleigh’s population grew 6.3 percent since 2010, to 431,746, while Durham grew 7.1 percent to 245,475.
Everyone in transit, please turn around and go back home. We have no more space here. Regards, people already living here who don't want to see traffic get worse.
Everyone in transit, please turn around and go back home. We have no more space here. Regards, people already living here who don't want to see traffic get worse.
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No. Really. This works for me. We can start a relocation lottery system for managed growth. With a fee. Boost the economy.
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We aren't running out of space but we are functionally running out of space for continual suburban sprawl.
We won't be able to afford continual suburban infrastructure expansion that grows faster than our population. What we can afford to do is develop more housing in our core to add to our tax base, reduce the overall number of miles driven and position us well for maintaining our aging suburban infrastructure (roads, sewer, etc.) that some are already balking at having to pay for to fix.
For everyone that loves their suburban lifestyle within the city limits of both Raleigh and Durham, I suggest getting behind a push to develop our cores with more housing, more retail, more entertainment and more new jobs (like those at RedHat and Citrix) because it will be those tax dollars that will continue to disproportionately generate the revenues that will save your butts from future spiraling costs from end of life infrastructure. To stop growth now would mean that we are more financially vulnerable and accept future costs associated with our historically mostly suburban development model.
rnc2mbfl, I think that Raleigh and Durham are heeding your advice, even before you wrote this. Just take a drive downtown, preferably on a Sunday afternoon when you can feel comfortable being a gawker. Cranes are in action. New Apartments are going up in all of the nicest areas. Hope the nicest areas stay nice.
rnc2mbfl, I think that Raleigh and Durham are heeding your advice, even before you wrote this. Just take a drive downtown, preferably on a Sunday afternoon when you can feel comfortable being a gawker. Cranes are in action. New Apartments are going up in all of the nicest areas. Hope the nicest areas stay nice.
Thankfully they are. My place is in DT Raleigh so I know it's happening. It just needs to continue and needs the support of the people in the entire city!
BTW, with the new population estimates and if the 2010 land area of Raleigh (142.9 square miles) is still valid, Raleigh has passed the 3000 ppl/sm metric....proof that the city is heeding the advice! Before suburban sprawl, most NC cities had population metrics that were way above 3000 ppl/sm. Raleigh is (or will be) NC's first city to peek its head above that metric again.
We aren't running out of space but we are functionally running out of space for continual suburban sprawl. ...
There is a parallel between cities and bacterial colonies growing in Petri dishes. They start out small, healthy, and growing. After a time they begin to die in the center while continuing to grow at the periphery. In Raleigh (and other cities) we continually hear about efforts to "revive the downtown area." Why? What is holy about "downtown?" Might be better to bulldoze it and create a lovely park.
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