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AND THAT TRANSFORMATION won’t come in a neat, coffee-cup sized container, nor will it stop with that nice little restaurant. It’ll sprawl all over the landscape, and send shock waves echoing across the entire area. And once the development mania grips a once rural county, there’s no stopping it. Everybody wants to get on the bandwagon. Unhappily, what they get instead are increased traffic, instant communities of townhouses and other quick housing types, gaudy “franchise” operations that take away local business, rising tax rates (yes, rising tax rates, as the experience of every county which lias experienced large scale growth has shown) and crowded schools, pressures for more expensive county services, traffic jams on country roads—in short, all the ills of suburbia.
If it stopped at the coffee house, we might be inclined to agree that a little bit of growth would be nice. But it doesn’t, and the real question is whether we want this part of the Piedmont to remain rural and liveable, or do we want to trade in a beautiful, healthy, inspiring environment for just another heaping of junk contemporary life?D
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