Comments on: Greetings from MeadWestvacoville http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/12/11/greetings-from-meadwestvacoville/ Richmond's Homepage For Business News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dick Wright http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2009/12/11/greetings-from-meadwestvacoville/comment-page-1/#comment-11091 Dick Wright Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:10:57 +0000 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=14063#comment-11091 This plan is excessively idealistic and has been largely influenced by environmental interests at the expense of everyone else. These same groups have been harping for years about "sprawl", but a look at this plan shows it to be the ultimate sprawl with small clusters of development isolated from each other and the main urban centers. This will require residents to continually travel for work, shopping and social gatherings. The assertion folks living in these little burgs will work and shop only in the limited commercial areas they provide is pie-in-the-sky thinking. The development/open space ratio should be 75/25, which would still be way more than most developments today. Charleston This plan is excessively idealistic and has been largely influenced by environmental interests at the expense of everyone else. These same groups have been harping for years about “sprawl”, but a look at this plan shows it to be the ultimate sprawl with small clusters of development isolated from each other and the main urban centers. This will require residents to continually travel for work, shopping and social gatherings. The assertion folks living in these little burgs will work and shop only in the limited commercial areas they provide is pie-in-the-sky thinking. The development/open space ratio should be 75/25, which would still be way more than most developments today.

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