New Toll Brothers Subdivision Near Streets At Southpoint

[PDXmom]

Originally Posted by Bull City Rising

Too bad. I think developers do better when they build neighborhoods like Brightleaf at the Park and leave natural wooded trees on site.

There's a movement afoot in Durham to ban clear-cut and mass grading development practices. It's things like these practices that get folks' blood boiling about new subdivisions.

I completely agree. There are some subdivision where they have clear cut (Southhampton is one that I know of) and then are there are some where it use to be a field thus there were not many trees to begin with. Someone told me the area around Lakehurst was mostly trees before it was a sd, but that predates me so I do not know if that is true or not.

I've seen fields with a buffer of a small bunch of trees between the road and the field, so in the summer it lots almost forest like. I wonder if Toll Bro development was like that. ??? Or in fact if they clear cut.

This is our first home that we've ever purchased or lived in that was under 75 years old so we were ignorant of some grading issues. I wish I had known to ask if the good topsoil had been scraped off and sold before development. I envision that we will be bringing in loads of compost soil every spring and fall for many years to come. Not to mention it does seem like in heavy rains the water runs off our yards into the storm drains pretty quickly. We're hoping some more vegetation in the right places will prevent some of the run off.

[scorp200]

They recently gutted all of the trees in Brier Creek too. And I don't know how that two lane road is going to handle all of the traffic. I feel very, very sorry for the homeowners who live across the street from that property.

[In & Out]

Originally Posted by Bull City Rising

Too bad. I think developers do better when they build neighborhoods like Brightleaf at the Park and leave natural wooded trees on site.

There's a movement afoot in Durham to ban clear-cut and mass grading development practices. It's things like these practices that get folks' blood boiling about new subdivisions.

It does look sad when many acres are clearcut. Sometimes there are good reasons though. Sometimes the trees that are there are not of good quality or would be harmed by being exposed when some trees are taken out. Although it is hard to watch, I don't mind clear cutting when need if a couple of things are done. First, there must be a plan in place that requires the replanting of dense landscaping trees (not just the one token tree in the front yard). Second, make sure the perimeter trees are left intact as buffers. If a properly done landscaping plan is followed, all will be well in 10 years. Centex does a good job with this.

[sneezecake]

Definitely true regarding trees - it's no surprise that we bought in Brightleaf and our second choice was Grandale - both neighborhoods where the developer(s) did excellent jobs of saving mature trees.