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the American Farmland Trust, the Piedmont Region is the second most threatened area in the country.” He believes that suburban developments, with their boring architecture, strip malls, and huge parking lots, have failed and the village concept, or neotraditionalism, is the wave of the future.
Epstein and his family have owned the Clevenger’s Comer property for about 20 years. Two years ago, they were approached by builders in South Wales who, during the course of negotiations, succeeded in getting the property rezoned commercial.
When the deal fell through, said Epstein, “it occurred to me and my family that this was an interesting and unique opportunity to build something appropriate and significant. My family has been going to the Piedmont region for 40 years. We have a log cabin in Madison. We love it. It was a special place for my parents and their five kids. We noticed the extraordinary changes that occur as development creeps further and further out” and we wanted to do something about it.
The core of the new development is the proposed commercial district, with an agricultural marketing cooperative of one to two dozen local farmers. “Each product would have to be
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