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jon f mn

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Sounds like the mentality of the folks in Des Moines, Iowa. "What was once JUST farmland, is now a beautiful interstate interchange with opportunity for shopping malls to grow"

It makes me sick.
 
That's not funny. There is now a Walmart where we used to race stock cars on a 3/8 mile dirt track.

Local homeowners got the track shut down because of the noise a dozen or so evenings a week during the season. I've often wondered how those same homeowners feel about living next to the commotion and traffic of a large 24/7 shopping center.
 
All too familiar. I grew up in Encinitas California. There used to be a spot in the valley where people would go and practice their dirt bike skills. Then one day it became a mini mall. Oh the joys of progmess.
 

Everyone will have a house to live in, a highway to drive on, and a shopping mall near by, but there will be nothing to eat because there will be NO place to grow our food.
 
(quoted from post at 08:25:32 06/20/16)
Local homeowners got the track shut down because of the noise a dozen or so evenings a week during the season.

Well, a dozen evenings a week would make for a loooong week.
 
And then what happens to the that land when the big box store closes and move to another spot to build a bigger one.
I can't remember when a store or home has been converted to farmland . Yet driving by cities and seeing there expansion I know the opposite is true
 
And how many thousand good productive acres are lost throughout the US to commercial and residential construction. Someday when we are long gone if that land is reclaimed for farm land it will never be as productive as it was before. I don't know how much worthless desert land is turned into development but that has to be factored in too.
 
The hundred acres I was raised on and the 40 acres of orchards, 8 acres of grapes 4 barns, and a multitude of sheds, now house almost 300 homes with sewers and water.
 
Hey..Look at it this way. When all of the cities that have d for mayors. When they knock a whole bunch of buildings and there is all kinds of "open space" they have mini neighborhood farm patches. Right back to the middle ages just like they want. Take a look at what they are doing in Detroit. My two cents.
 
Don't blame Des Moines. The new road that runs south out of Waukee(Alice's Road) is where that new messed up interchange that causes folks to get on the Interstate in the wrong direction and where two Police officers got killed is now known as Kettlestone. A convience store is already open. And it's ALL in Dallas County.
 
(quoted from post at 11:36:25 06/20/16) Don't blame Des Moines. The new road that runs south out of Waukee(Alice's Road) is where that new messed up interchange that causes folks to get on the Interstate in the wrong direction and where two Police officers got killed is now known as Kettlestone. A convience store is already open. And it's ALL in Dallas County.

Waukee, Johnston, Grimes, etc., etc. are ALL a part of Des Moines. Waukee used to be just a sleepy little farming community. But then greedy Des Moines swallowed it up. Grimes also used to be a nice, friendly, little farming community. Not any more.
 
Actually its a lot more than half.


In 1950 there were 1.8 MILLION people living there, today there are .7 million people living there and the decline continues.


The average price of homes sold in Detroit in 2012 was $7,500; as of January 2013 47 houses in Detroit were listed for $500 or less, with five properties listed for $1. Despite the extremely low price of Detroit properties, most of the properties have been on the market for more than a year as the boarded up, abandoned houses of the city are seldom attractive to buyers. The Detroit News reported that more than half of Detroit property owners did not pay taxes in 2012, at a loss to the city of $131 million (equal to 12% of the city's general fund budget).
 
It's amazing what it's come to and serves as a warning.

I've followed it loosely in the news, here and there. The loss of tax revenue has led to a shocking reduction in public safety forces. Apparently there is a big problem with arson taking out a lot of those abandoned homes and many calls go unanswered due to lack of fire services.
 

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