Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Pleasant Valley Sunday?

A few days ago, Rick Harrison wrote an insightful article about "cookie cutter" subdivisions (and the city ordinances that foster them) versus sustainable development:

Nobody likes the taste of “cookie cutter” development. In the forty years that I’ve been in the land planning industry, at meeting after meeting I hear planning commissioners and city council members complain about the same thing: That developers submit the same recipes to cook up bland subdivisions over and over.    Read the entire article here.

This reminds me of the Monkees song, "Pleasant Valley Sunday"
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Charcoal burning everywhere
Rows of houses that are all the same
And no one seems to care

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