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.
