100 metres from our boundary our neighbour-but-one has subdivided 3 sections. Diggers are moving 8,000 m3 of soil (it’s all sand really). Work near us started today. Soon we’ll have even more neighbours! Grrr.
@matpacker Unfortunately trees won't really solve this one, thanks to the lie of the land. Luckily it's south of us so we don't really look straight at it most of the time.
@Miraz aarrgghh. Good luck with that. I know it can be a monotonous drone listening to construction work 😳
@Miraz Ugh :-( That’s sad.
One of the last un(der)developed parcels at the edge of our neighborhood is for sale—it is the woods at the back of our street, and it is zoned for much denser development and the for sale sign advertises that it’s ideal for subdividing :-( We’re hoping it doesn’t turn into 10-20 houses…
@smokey These 3 properties should have each had a max of 1 house. The local Council gave consent to subdivide even though they don't meet subdivision criteria. I'm annoyed but there's nothing to e done about it. Our whole region is under pressure of population growth at the moment, so the Council has incentive to break their own rules.
@smokey If only they would upzone the inner suburbs. Or, god forbid, at least the neighborhoods near train stations. It would relieve a ton of the pressure on more rural/wooded areas. //@Miraz
@Miraz That’s too bad. (In the States, there would be a lawsuit over it, no doubt! :-P )
Fingers crossed we won’t lose the woods…the house and property have been for sale for some time now with no takers, and there are still larger parcels around which would give developers more flexibility, but you never know….
@Bruce Train stations…public transit…in metro Atlanta (especially suburban metro Atlanta!)…what bizarro planet do you think you’re on, Bruce? :-P That’s a big part of the problem here…until we have good transit, higher-density zoning around main transportation corridors just makes those corridors even more congested :-( We’re 50-100 years too late with good planning. (It has been enlightening watching the area turn from nearly-rural to suburban-on-the-way-to-megalopolis in my lifetime.) // @Miraz