Honestly, when you get more developments more places in a huge country with a declining birthrate and six decades of very unbalanced growth, sprawl isn’t something I worry about much when I look at rural repopulation.
If Blacksburg’s neighboring Giles County, population about 16.8k, gets another 500 people living on little hobby farms to …
Honestly, when you get more developments more places in a huge country with a declining birthrate and six decades of very unbalanced growth, sprawl isn’t something I worry about much when I look at rural repopulation.
If Blacksburg’s neighboring Giles County, population about 16.8k, gets another 500 people living on little hobby farms to put its population back to where it was in 1960, I am going to say yay sprawl and root for them.
I have zero interest in trying to densify growth in the counties around Blacksburg, and a decent number of bigger farms are no longer economically viable as businesses. I don’t mind seeing them split into smaller farms, although I am not a fan of suburbs in rural counties. Small farms are fun to live on if you farm as a hobby - pretty much my ideal living situation, keeping in mind I have a professional job, remote, for the bills.
Making up for previous declines in growth is not a sprawl problem. It’s a good thing.
Honestly, when you get more developments more places in a huge country with a declining birthrate and six decades of very unbalanced growth, sprawl isn’t something I worry about much when I look at rural repopulation.
If Blacksburg’s neighboring Giles County, population about 16.8k, gets another 500 people living on little hobby farms to put its population back to where it was in 1960, I am going to say yay sprawl and root for them.
I have zero interest in trying to densify growth in the counties around Blacksburg, and a decent number of bigger farms are no longer economically viable as businesses. I don’t mind seeing them split into smaller farms, although I am not a fan of suburbs in rural counties. Small farms are fun to live on if you farm as a hobby - pretty much my ideal living situation, keeping in mind I have a professional job, remote, for the bills.
Making up for previous declines in growth is not a sprawl problem. It’s a good thing.