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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
11/23/2007 5:50 AM |
Last week, I was on vacation, so that’s why there were no blogs written for a period of time. Last Sunday marked the final day of my vacation, but I had to attend to a matter that got inked in on my calendar months ago. I was a guest of the American Jewish Club in the State Road 200 community of On Top of the World where I was invited as a guest speaker. On Top of the World is a gated community, and I recall when the bulldozers first showed up in the area and began toppling trees and ripping out underbrush to make room for the new development.
My wife and I had moved up here in 1971, and many times we traveled SR 200, then still a lonely two-lane roadway that probably saw more wildlife crossing it than automobiles. But times have certainly changed. Now the area is exploding in growth and new developments fill many an architect’s CAD systems, with much more probably coming in at some period in the not-too-distant future.
While addressing club members and fielding their questions, I noted a number of different American accents, and not many sounded as though they had any long-standing local ties. The area is rapidly filling up as people retire and seek a warmer climate to spend their declining years, a sort of self-reward that many have been planning for perhaps most of their lives.
It’s nice to see so many people filling their dreams of moving South, but the strains on our infrastructure, especially on the roadway system and our water resources are going to keep community planners busy for decades seeing if they can figure a competent way to balance demand with supply.
But we’ve always managed to come up with workable solutions to seemingly intractable problems before, and I’ve no doubt we’ll do so again. |
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