NC Triangle's Efforts To Slow Sprawl

1 April 2001 - 7:00am

A major mixed-use development is transforming one of the region's many office parks into a model smart growth community.

Two of the region's biggest developers are planning to transform a 1,000-acre office park into a mixed use development that would include 1,800 units of high density housing, along with hotels, shops, restaurants, and a school. "Cary's slow-growth leaders -- who call traditional office parks "engines for sprawl and traffic" and advocate building homes and shops among employers -- are thrilled." The developers plan to break ground in the fall.

Source: The News & Observer, March 30, 2001
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No matter how one wanted to organize the ideal city, housing security would be part of it. No community can function effectively if large numbers of its residents are regularly displaced or perpetually at risk of being displaced.