Once a site of rolling hills and trees. Then it was "gentrified"! (Page 3): I lived in west Phoenix in the 60's & early 70's.....Glad I don't live in that part of town anymore.....

In Paradise Loc: Sun City, AZ

I lived in west Phoenix in the 60's & early 70's.....Glad I don't live in that part of town anymore..... There were empty spaces between Glendale, Peoria & Phoenix. It's pretty much built up all the way to the White Tanks Mountains.

So sad!!!!

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Retired CPO wrote:

If you read his public statements, Elon Musk thinks the biggest danger for human kind, long term, is a decreasing human population. Of course, his Billions came from selling to mass markets. So that makes sense to him! But overpopulation is a clear and present danger to future generations, as it is to us. Just a fact. As I said, I admire him and what he is doing greatly. But he is wrong here. Just as everyone is wrong about something, sometime.

We can’t control our growing populations but nature will eventually solve the problem as it always does.

JBuckley

Life, time, and changes happen.

This beautiful (rock) that we live on, used to be just a hunk of rock
that had burned itself as it traveled thru space.

And then......God made it a place for humanity to live and grow on.

Change, no matter how subtle, can be a beautiful and great thing.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Longshadow wrote:

I'm sure the developers see it that way also.

Developers in this town will buy up a neglected property or a vacant lot in a well established 2 houses/acre (RS20) neighborhood and then petition for rezoning from RS20 to RS5. Why settle for clearing $50k when you can quadruple that by putting four houses on a half acre lot. They've been successful in a few instances. It really messes with the character of the neighborhood when it is permitted.

Stan

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

StanMac wrote:

Developers in this town will buy up a neglected property or a vacant lot in a well established 2 houses/acre (RS20) neighborhood and then petition for rezoning from RS20 to RS5. Why settle for clearing $50k when you can quadruple that by putting four houses on a half acre lot. They've been successful in a few instances. It really messes with the character of the neighborhood when it is permitted.

Stan

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

StanMac wrote:

Developers in this town will buy up a neglected property or a vacant lot in a well established 2 houses/acre (RS20) neighborhood and then petition for rezoning from RS20 to RS5. Why settle for clearing $50k when you can quadruple that by putting four houses on a half acre lot. They've been successful in a few instances. It really messes with the character of the neighborhood when it is permitted.

Stan

A future dystopia will have each of us carrying a small bag of dirt and rocks and that will be our allocated portion of America. Or maybe it’s here and now.

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

gvarner wrote:

We can’t control our growing populations but nature will eventually solve the problem as it always does.

Can't control our growing population? Sure we can. We are smart, thinking beings. We have the tools. We CAN do anything we WANT. Will we? I don't know. If we don't, something else will.
If the war in Ukraine doesn't simmer down soon that might turn into the tool that does it!!
The fact is that many first world nations already have a declining birth rate and it's already low enough that the population IS declining. But that isn't a worldwide phenomena. And that is what's needed.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Same happening here in Florida. They won't be happy until the whole state is one big slab of concrete!
☹☹☹

Don

AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!

PAR4DCR wrote:

Same happening here in Florida. They won't be happy until the whole state is one big slab of concrete!
☹☹☹

Don

I once saw a billboard put up by a building company that said, "The only beautiful desert is one that has been paved over!"

topcat Loc: Alameda, CA

I watched that happen where I grew up. Farmland turned into home developments.
What is lost will never be reclaimed.
But then, the new generation will never know what they are missing.

dj moore Loc: Florida panhandle

Scary, happening all over the country. So sad!