What's in a name? - Democratic Underground

soup

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Fri Dec-22-06 09:59 AM
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What's in a name?

Rows of houses may replace rows of citrus

Another orange grove will fall to bulldozers, if plans materialize to turn 100 acres on the outskirts of Dade City into about 400 single-family homes.

But regulators are already looking askance at the proposed four homes per acre, a density that might not sit well in an area largely characterized by low-density development and open land.

The project, driven by Clearwater's Bayshore-Broadway Developers, is tentatively called Citrus Ridge.
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http://www.sptimes.com/2006/12/22/State/Lawyer_punished_for_l.shtml

Citrus Ridge...

I know developers do this all the time, I just wonder if people who move to places called 'Deer Run', or 'Manatee Cove', or 'Quail Roost', or 'Citrus Ridge' ever think about what was lost so they could live in 'Rain Forest Estates' or 'Wildflower Meadow'.

*sigh.
I don't know, just having one of those days.

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wakeme2008

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Fri Dec-22-06 10:12 AM
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1. The four homes per acre does not sound bad

until you look and see they did not count ROADS in that.

Sounds like small lot track homes to me.

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Sydnie

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Fri Dec-22-06 10:18 AM
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2. It certainly does sound as if they have taken a page out of

post WW2 developers plan books and scaled it down even further. They might be ok for retirement homes, but no where large enough for a family, even a beginning family starter type home.

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soup

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Fri Dec-22-06 10:47 AM
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4. Thanks, Sydnie.

Edited on Fri Dec-22-06 10:49 AM by soup

Maybe, just maybe, 'Citrus Ridge' isn't going to look like I thought it would. But, even so, development runs rampant.

It's weighing on me today. Probably because of this special report on the vanishing wetlands:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/webspecials06/wetlands/

edit to add - not that an orange grove qualifies as wetlands :crazy: - just thinking about development in general.

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soup

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Fri Dec-22-06 10:37 AM
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3. Ah, hadn't thought of that.

Roads - that would cut into lot size, wouldn't it?

Maybe it isn't going to be another enclave for Mcmansions. I'll have to rethink my 'just what Florida needs, another upscale development'. Thanks for your post.

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