Last night I was thinking about the BOCC and the new slow !!! growth tilt that seems to have grabbed hold of them. If you look at the above map it illustrates the vast amounts of untouched land that still exist in this country.(To go to the original interactive link please go here. My humble thanks to Time Magazine.)
Did you know ?
* One researcher has calculated that the entire population of the United States at a low suburban density of one family per acre would require an area less than the state of Oregon.
* Only about 5% of of the United States land mass is currently urbanized. 20% is devoted to farming and more than 30% is covered by forest. The balance (almost) half is wilderness.
* From the 1990 census... the densities of the American suburbs and cities is not vastly different. The average gross population density of the suburbs was 2,149 persons per square mile and the cities was 2,813. The reason is that about three quarters of the suburbs are one or two stories. However in the cities only 5% of the city dwellings nationwide are seven stories or more, over half of the city dwellings are one or two stories.
So the question arises for the BOCC what is the real density of the county and are their reactions based on perceived or real density numbers. Or is it a case of the NIMBY's.
Did you know ?
* One researcher has calculated that the entire population of the United States at a low suburban density of one family per acre would require an area less than the state of Oregon.
* Only about 5% of of the United States land mass is currently urbanized. 20% is devoted to farming and more than 30% is covered by forest. The balance (almost) half is wilderness.
* From the 1990 census... the densities of the American suburbs and cities is not vastly different. The average gross population density of the suburbs was 2,149 persons per square mile and the cities was 2,813. The reason is that about three quarters of the suburbs are one or two stories. However in the cities only 5% of the city dwellings nationwide are seven stories or more, over half of the city dwellings are one or two stories.
So the question arises for the BOCC what is the real density of the county and are their reactions based on perceived or real density numbers. Or is it a case of the NIMBY's.
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