Lots of development in a city best known as the place of my birth

In 25 years, county's green could disappear:

Mecklenburg County is on pace to have all of its available land developed within 25 years, according to a new UNC Charlotte study.

The 24-county project on new urban growth, released Tuesday, paints the clearest picture yet of how population increases and commercial development are changing the region.

The study area, which ran from the Blue Ridge Mountains to Rockingham, lost more than 100 acres daily to development from 1976 through 2006, the study found. That amounts to an area of about 75 football fields each day.

The article does not mention efforts to preserve the Whitehead homestead.

Comments

[reason]

JW...
You seem to have a good dose of narcissism if you don't me saying so. How many posts here are self-referential. (You also seem to be obsessed with the status of the blog.) Try just being interested in the world.

[John Whitehead]

Reason,

You've discovered my schtick! I'm self-absorbed, therefore I blog.

Try to read the post without the comment at the bottom and if title was: Lots of development in Charlotte. In other words, feel free to filter out the crap.

More disturbingly, you don't think i'm interested in the world? do you think I read and read and read in order to find articles with a "john whitehead" hook? Nope, I read and read and read because i AM interested in the world and post stuff that I think is mostinteresting and that I think others might find interesting as well. If I can add a narcissistic throw away line at the bottom then that's even better.

[reason]

JW - notice the word JUST

[John's Mother]

"You seem to have a good dose of narcissism if you don't me saying so."

I mind you saying so. I have know this Whitehead dude for over 20 years and you are off base with this one.

Wait a minute, let me go back to my early days....takes one to know one.