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What are some of the concerns of traditional subdivision development?
Home » Real Estate » Neighborhood and Subdivision Development » What are some of the concerns of traditional subdivision development?Traditional subdivision developments use large amounts of land, are not friendly to pedestrians or bicyclists, and are heavily depended on individual automobile use instead of the use of public transportation. Oftentimes, these neighborhoods can have hundreds of houses but very few main entrance or exit roadways into the neighborhood. The people that live in these communities are often very similar, and the houses are often bland and called "cookie cutter" (because the houses look the same) and "snout houses" (because the prominent feature of the house from the front view is garage doors, likened to a pig's snout). Sometimes, development of outlaying areas is unrestricted, allowing large land allotments, thus making the communities seem very dispersed, but at the same time, increasing the expenses of infrastructure to service such a widely-expanded community. Valuable green spaces and farmlands are too quickly sacrificed for subdivisions or individual home sites.
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