Bulldozers, dump trucks and backhoes, oh my. Another development. Another day, another dollar for the developers who come into an area, buy up the land, and ruin it for the rest of us.
My ancestors settled the county I live in. As in the 1700s. As in, pioneers. As in, when the east was the wild west and the Mississippi was just a scribble on a map.
What a mess we've made, eh?
Are those developers getting Tax Increment Financing?
ReplyDeleteThey do around here, especially walmart. Republicans in charge you know. They'd sell grandma for a good price.And the democrats will help 'em box her up.
It's sad, isn't it? I don't have the roots here you do, but many of us moved out here because of the rural feel, perhaps redoing an old house like we did, and now years later, we find ourselves back in suburbia. If this is in your back yard, I know it has to bother you. It would me.
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I can't believe how the landscape has changed since I moved here 11 years ago. Electric Road was nowhere as developed as it is now. There's hardly a tree left. It seems there's no place "safe" anymore from development and when there's no flat land they'll just pop that top off a mountain.
ReplyDeleteFurious: I don't think we give those specific perks, but I am as sure there are perks as I am that the deals done behind closed doors are the ones that matter, not what happens in the public hearings.
ReplyDeleteTom: I am greatly troubled by the development, not just what's coming in behind me but all over the county. They've never met a development they don't like, apparently.
Ms. E: That scalped mountain over there near Tanglewood horrifies me. I can see that happening all over. Roanoke used to be a nice little city. Now it is a sprawling little monster.