By: Quikboy

Quikboy — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:26:32 +0000

That’s fine, but I wish it were more urban-like, rather than spread out like a suburb. Being more green, also means becoming more urban. Sounds weird, but you can get deploy greater efficiency in densely populated areas, then trying to connect different houses scattered all about.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:32:54 +0000

I like the initiative of a sustainable community, especially with the concerns from global warming. One problem though, global warming. Has any of these so-called environmentalists who are applauding this development actually looked at the forecasted sea-level rise as a result of global warming? In 100 years, its possible that this entire city could be under the ocean! Unless of course they plan on using our federal tax dollars to build levees around it, since the United States has such a great track record of building and maintaining levees around cities. This is just an attempt for a developer to capitalize on the trend of sustainable development to make money. Developers are always too short sided to see the long-term problems of their plans. They rarely look past their wallets and bank accounts. And of course, money controls government and elected officials are drooling over this project. I also recall hurricanes like to hit south Florida, but I could be mistaken. I guess my federal tax dollars will go to building levees around this new city and then bailing the city out every time there is hurricane. Developers have a history of not building to construction codes meant to save lives and property in Florida, see Hurricane Andrew. I challenge anyone who actually claims to care about the environment to read real research into why disasters have grown exponentially in costs. It is because we continue to build in mass in hazardous areas!

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