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proxieme
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posted April 17, 2003 06:31 PM
Well, I thought that all the nice farmland and woods in the county I grew up in seemed to be disappearing awfully fast -
I just heard on the news that it's the 9th fastest growing county in the entire country.IP: Logged |
N_wEvil
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posted April 17, 2003 06:36 PM
if it make you feel any better, most of the southeast of the UK is eating into enforced greenbelt areas rather than redevloping city sink estates  IP: Logged |
proxieme
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posted April 17, 2003 06:50 PM
Do you have those awful McMansions over there, too (you know, horrendous, ugly, beige, towering, square houses rougly the size of their lot)?Ugh. I HATE those - and the developers just plop them down haphazardly and plant these anemic ornamental trees next to them.
*stewing*
I knew that the Stafford Co. board of supervisors wouldn't stick to their earlier zoning plans.
I was chosen to shadow the head of the board for a day when I was in HS, and those of us that were shadowing members were given the "delux tour" of the gov't center; they showed us, among other things, the zoning plans from 1985 (it was 1998 when I saw them - they hadn't remotely stuck to any part of them) and for through 2005...they're not sticking to those, either.
I hate them.
Hate.
The greedy board of Supes is letting Silver (a developer) and his ilk run roughshod over the agricultural base. There is no real base left to speak of - there's a few corn-, cow-, and horsefields scattered about, but everytime I drive down there there's another gone, torn up to accomadate *&^%$#$ yuppies that move down from up north and out of DC and it's surrounding area (because, hell, they've already run that to the ground and ruined its schools). More and more of the woods are being turned into these vast brown fields of stumps and rubble to make way...
*stews some more*
*heart rate increasing*
I've got to go do something else now before I give myself an aneurism. IP: Logged |
N_wEvil
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posted April 17, 2003 07:05 PM
nope, in the UK you have to be very special/stupid/affluent to build your own house, or move into a new house.This place is going to wind up one big city in the not-too-near future. I cant remember how big the UK is in terms of size/population but put it this way, you cant really walk for more than 30 minutes in any direction without hearing cars and/or running across houses (this does only hold true for about a 50 mile radius around london though) Want to know what it'll wind up like? just look right over here, and increase the scale and inherent problems an according amount. quote:
Sustainable economic growth...bah.
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proxieme
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posted April 17, 2003 08:11 PM
I hope not.
Places feel so lonely without real land.IP: Logged |
Harpyr
Knowflake Posts: 2255
From: land of the midnight sun
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted April 18, 2003 03:38 AM
BIG YELLOW TAXI -Joni MitchellThey paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot Hey farmer, farmer
Put away the D.D.T. now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot I said, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot They paved paradise
Put up a parking lot
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trippysht
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From: Morristown, NJ USA
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted April 18, 2003 01:46 PM
prox, my boy's parents live in centreville-- hehe i think they're part of the problem  , they moved there when exxon-mobile moved (one of) their HQ down there.. we think the whole area is really weird because everything is ultra-new, all of the houses are part of developments that all look the same and are dead-ends-- so they don't connect to anything else. his sister lives in an apartment building that is part of maybe 20 buildings identical to it, also in a dead end street.. i dont know why we find the dead-end thing so weird, its just around here in jersey, there is a great variety of neighborhoods that all attatch, and we have a real downtown area, not jsut the multitude of shopping centers that characterize the commerical districts down there... we (the boy and i) vision that this is how a lot of the country will look one day.. im not sure i'm explaining it well, but you probably know what its like, you live there  anyways, i totally know what you're talking aboutIP: Logged |
proxieme
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posted April 19, 2003 05:26 PM
Ewww - Centreville's getting nasty, too.
My parents remember when it was all rolling farmland and small towns w/ a clear view of the mountains to the west...not anymore
I'd much rather have actual connected *towns* and then country than the sprawling, awful suburbia that's infesting this area. But, the developers want to eek as much cash out of their investment as possible, and zoning boards are more than willing to concede if it means more tax revenue. I was so proud of Stafford in refusing to give Silver the chance to develop its side of the Rappahanock, but now it looks like he's got some deal in the works...OOOOk, I'm going to have to stop before I get another headache - I had one for a day after I wrote my little hate-letter further up the thread. IP: Logged |
taj
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Registered: Aug 2002
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posted April 19, 2003 09:28 PM
thank goodness for piscean passion!my kid sister (you feel so much like one, corri... is why you got that nick 'kid'.  ) when in uni had winged feet for the very purpose of trekking bumpy trails to rouse common folk (read: oppressed and hoodwinked) from their state of inertia. (have i told you all this before?) she'd stew and fume, alright. and not think twice about giving away a shirt she borrowed from me, which i borrowed from another, to a poor fisherman who only said it 'looked nice' ?!? ('course this went uncondoned by big sister. heck, the shirt wasnt ours... but how does that stand in the face of her charity?!?  she debates authorities, that one. a city mayor she met with said she oughta take law. has just given a bank executive a mouthful about the inequity of banking laws... can imagine what would happen if you two got together.. 
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