Another reason to control urban sprawl. This NY Times article suggests that suburbia ain't all that its cracked up to be.
Dr. Richard Jackson of the CDC, "believes there are persuasive, if yet circumstantial, links between the suburbs and certain physical and mental diseases. If so, he said, the building of larger and larger suburbs might be viewed as a colossal mistake."
The health benefits of new urbanist led community design is being taken very seriously. Evidence is growing that we need to embrace, indeed promote, infill development policies to make Greensboro an even more "livable" place than it currently is. We have a great start on implementing new urbanist infill planning with Southside, Willow Oaks and the Aycock Plan.
We need to explore additional ways to entice developers to create more walkable mixed use communities within the City.
On a related note: Jim Schlosser reports (no link available) this morning in the News & Record about what a great year it has been for the wrecking ball in Greensboro. The article mentions many times that the land beneath future and current historic buildings has become more valuable than the parcel is with the structure on it. This same argument was used as the justification for demolishing the old Burlington Industries Headquarters to make room for a new baseball stadium on North Elm Street.
A building's value can not be measured soley by it's selling price.
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