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Chapel Hill/Carrboro's population growth is stymied by their anti-growth policies, which creates a limited supply of housing and development. Ironically, although both cities are strongly progressive, these policies make inflate housing prices to levels that make those cities unaffordable for people of modest or middle incomes.
Chapel Hill/Carrboro's population growth is stymied by their anti-growth policies, which creates a limited supply of housing and development. Ironically, although both cities are strongly progressive, these policies make inflate housing prices to levels that make those cities unaffordable for people of modest or middle incomes.
I would call it controlled-growth rather than anti-growth. Chapel Hill/Carrboro's population has grown 60% in the last 20 years I've lived here, and there has been and continues to be considerable development. I do agree that controlling growth does come at the cost of elevating property prices.
Then why the comparison of NC to Jersey? If they can manage to still have plenty of farmland, with much higher pressure from expanding urban areas during a time in which zoning was not nearly as controlled as now, surely, NC can manage it now, being 7 or so times bigger and all.
Because, it's not exactly a rural state. I would rather growth slowed down by a lot, was kept in the cities and was urban development, with more land protected. Just my opinion, hate this fast high growth, only signs of slowing down is demographic trends from the north to south is shifting now west. More people are moving west than south in the future. Plus there seems to be an urban rejuvenation going on as millennial grow up and go the opposite direction of their parents.
Chapel Hill/Carrboro's population growth is stymied by their anti-growth policies, which creates a limited supply of housing and development. Ironically, although both cities are strongly progressive, these policies make inflate housing prices to levels that make those cities unaffordable for people of modest or middle incomes.
Well, that came from people who work in NY. Whether or not NY is worse than RDU, I think they manage their traffic better.
I think traffic here is absolutely horrible and we need the light rail pretty badly, and we need the suburbs to quit sprawling.
I think the traffic at the airport is actually quite light.
I am always for trying "limited" light rail at first, but the Triangle is not set up to take advantage of widespread light rail.
Raleigh itself is a sprawling suburb, outside of its very small DT area. The entire Triangle is basically one big suburb, which I happen to prefer, so I don't think it is going to change anytime in the near or distant future.
No way the Cleveland area of Johnston county is as densely populated as Apex? How many square miles approximately does the unincorporated area of Cleveland cover?
Not sure about density, because it doesn't give the exact area. But this is the article I was talking about. | News & Observer
Thanks for that and I did see that when I searched google maps as well, but thought it looked rather large for a "community". That area is HUGE and much bigger than Apex's current 19 sq. miles. That looks to be about 3x's the size of Apex. I don't see how it could become a town anytime without massive amounts of capital (i.e. taxing) to build the infrastructure required to incorporate.
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