That is the result of in-filling. You and your neighbors ain't doing nothing with your back yards anyway, let us impose imminent domain on it and give you some new neighbors!
Sometimes all it takes is a willing seller. My now deceased brother's neighbor died, leaving a ramshackle house on a large lot to her heirs. They couldn't wait to cash in. The developer demolished the house and built 12 2-story houses, each with an in-law apartment, on the slightly over an acre parcel. The cul-de-sac looked similar to this one.
Beleaguered cities love the revenue stream. Neighbors are somewhat less enamored of them.
Here in San Diego the county supervisors sell higher-density variances and "exceptions" to the General Plan like the Pope used to sell indulgences.
This. My anecdote happened in Walnut Creek, which used to be quite rural. The old woman was the last to die, and was surrounded by condos before she shuffled off. I like to think she lived so long out of spite.
I used to work for an engineering firm that worked for developers. As human beings, they may be nice or not nice people, but as economic beings they're just doing what any rational economic actor would do: maximizing value. It's the politicians who ruin the environment, and we elect them.
Ooh, I visited Walnut Creek once. Nice, in a vanilla kind of way.
Iroquois call police because "White People ‘Don’t Belong’ in Woods
"If the caller calls back," the report concluded, "[advise] them that a black family lives in the neighborhood."
This is the literal definition of rekt.
Also that is the strangest cul-de-sac I've ever seen, what is even going on there with that weird loop on the side of it?
That is the result of in-filling. You and your neighbors ain't doing nothing with your back yards anyway, let us impose imminent domain on it and give you some new neighbors!
Not sure developers even need eminent domain to slam in as many crackerboxes as the zoning allows. It's called "by-right" development, by God.
Sometimes all it takes is a willing seller. My now deceased brother's neighbor died, leaving a ramshackle house on a large lot to her heirs. They couldn't wait to cash in. The developer demolished the house and built 12 2-story houses, each with an in-law apartment, on the slightly over an acre parcel. The cul-de-sac looked similar to this one.
Beleaguered cities love the revenue stream. Neighbors are somewhat less enamored of them.
Here in San Diego the county supervisors sell higher-density variances and "exceptions" to the General Plan like the Pope used to sell indulgences.
This. My anecdote happened in Walnut Creek, which used to be quite rural. The old woman was the last to die, and was surrounded by condos before she shuffled off. I like to think she lived so long out of spite.
You'll enjoy this article by a jaded veteran of the CA Coastal Commission:
http://steveblank.com/category/california-coastal…
I used to work for an engineering firm that worked for developers. As human beings, they may be nice or not nice people, but as economic beings they're just doing what any rational economic actor would do: maximizing value. It's the politicians who ruin the environment, and we elect them.
Ooh, I visited Walnut Creek once. Nice, in a vanilla kind of way.
Iroquois call police because "White People ‘Don’t Belong’ in Woods
Wait, what?
Black and gay? Oh my…
Also, define "nicer" neighborhood…
I think she meant nicer-looking.
And least she didn't have any gay Negroes living next door.