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Posted: Sep 4th, 2006 08:36 pm |
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| aesthetics aka "curb appeal"
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Jim Flynt
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Posted: Sep 5th, 2006 12:12 am |
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DToney wrote: it would certainly look more uniform if they all looked alike... or at least similar.
I am just curious if you could name any other town in America where commercial properties not under one ownership might meet the development criteria or uniform appearance standard which you seem to suggest?
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DToney
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Posted: Sep 5th, 2006 01:29 pm |
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| the last 2 towns I lived in had a Main Street Revitialization program and actually dug up the streets, put in lamp posts, fixed the sidewalks, and asked each merchant to tidy up a bit. The results were amazing! Tehy both like a Currier & Ives painting.
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Posted: Sep 5th, 2006 01:38 pm |
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DToney wrote: the last 2 towns I lived in had a Main Street Revitialization program and actually dug up the streets, put in lamp posts, fixed the sidewalks, and asked each merchant to tidy up a bit. The results were amazing! Tehy both like a Currier & Ives painting.
Which two towns?
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DToney
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Posted: Sep 6th, 2006 09:48 am |
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| Union, SC & Lexington, SC
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DToney
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Posted: Sep 10th, 2006 05:52 pm |
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these "streetscape" type of projects were going on all over SC when we were there... basically kept the "historic" feel & architecture.... just spruced up a bit... fixed the sidewalks, put in lamp posts & passed building codes where they had to use "historical" colors. results were great!
Any project can be costly, but it seems our council watches the bottom line - which is great! A well planned project with good oversight usually ends up less expensive. 
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Posted: Sep 12th, 2006 04:36 am |
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If we kept everything in "downtown" historical would it all be brick and of course red? Would not that be kind of boring, kind of like all the cookie cutter developement where all the houses are basically the same. Someone needs to build some nice Italian villas, or a castle(I think there is one in Dorsett Downs). Saw in that other weekly real esstate section a developer who was building"country farmhouses in his development". None looked like farmhouses I am used to seeing . Of course my parents farmhouse was actually a ranch style, not a cowboy around.
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DToney
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Posted: Sep 12th, 2006 09:47 am |
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not necessarily boring... you can have character without boredom. 
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Posted: Oct 11th, 2006 04:33 am |
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why does it seem most people come out against affordable housing,ie.; 1500 sq. feet or less. Most people I know are already priced out oF OR and Summerfield and Stokesdale is getting that way. How often we here of the triad being a place to raise a family, its getting to be where you need to move to Rock. or Forsyth counties to find affordable housing.
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Posted: Nov 2nd, 2006 02:12 am |
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Reference to the construction at 68 & Haw River, If there ever was a need for one of my big dislikes, the natural look dirt berms with trees on top would be better.
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DToney
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Posted: Nov 23rd, 2006 09:52 pm |
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ff12 wrote: why does it seem most people come out against affordable housing,ie.; 1500 sq. feet or less. Most people I know are already priced out oF OR and Summerfield and Stokesdale is getting that way. How often we here of the triad being a place to raise a family, its getting to be where you need to move to Rock. or Forsyth counties to find affordable housing.
I would have to agree with your comment! When we moved up here last year, we could not find something around 1800 sq ft, not in a development, & affordable! Dang if I want a huge house for 3 people! I guess I'm too practical..... 
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