Dense Building Comes From a Dense Mentality
Part 1
There is nothing under the sun that we manifest that isn’t blueprinted from the mind, be it an individual endeavor, or a group project.
Here are some synonyms found in the dictionary for the word dense: thick, heavy, murky, and smoggy.
Smoggy, you mean like the smog I have seen in LA? There is hardly any land in LA. It’s like a concrete jungle. Same goes for parts of Florida.
Some Florida towns woke up and realized they had to stop building in dense style modus operandi. Just travel along route 19 on the West Coast of Florida and you’ll know what I’m talking about. Many acknowledged mistakes made in creating concrete jungles with dense high-rise apartments on their beaches in Florida. Then, when it was too late, some towns changed their variances and laws and made sure that future projects had enough “healthy land space” and re-planted trees in parking areas.
It’s imperative that we factor in that there is enough area in our towns, in general, to accommodate the amount of people that can fit into them. An obvious factor often overlooked when planning. I think just now, when Ocala Florida had gotten really excited about building dense communities, with a plethora of mobile homes, only to discover they did not have enough roads to accommodate all the people. True story: you would wait in an intersection, just one intersection, for almost 25 to 30 minutes to pass through it, because the roads were so jammed up.
Remember, I’m talking about towns here, not big cities that were made to be dense deliberately.
Let’s not forget about sewage/ septic issues, also?
Maybe it is just not a good idea to drive thousands of people into small established towns in the name of revenue.
Side Note: (Are there plans for clearing dense congestion on the streets, that maybe most people are not aware of? I will discuss further in part 2, next letter.)
Last but not least, do you think it’s time the community wrote a letter to the Attorney General and let her know, if she has not already been informed, that as the Fairhaven Neighborhood News has reported in the June 13 article, plans for a 40R district include waterfront being considered for building up dense apartment housing, the same district encompasses property owned by planning board members, Patrick Carr and Ruy DaSilva. That is a direct “Conflict Of Interest’ and is against the law.
Laws are put into place for a very important reason. Laws guide us in making decisions and protect us against tyranny”
To be continued…
Michelle Costen, Fairhaven
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