Got to love developments in rural areas

[tradosaurus]

I have lived for the last 32 yrs in the middle of a family farm , my friend and neighbor bought homes from two sisters who had decided to move away , the brother passed some yrs ago leaving the rest of the land to him, He unfortunantly owed poeple money and sold to a builder , i now have 80 homes going in front of my house that was a cornfield, Im sick , Nothin you can do, I would move but wife wont leave our daughter and grandkids who live just up the road.

My brother encountered the same response from his wife when he wanted to move years ago from his widely expanding town. Funny though my grandparents lived at least 10 hrs away. I have two grandkids so far but I'm not following my son's career path to be near the grandkids.

 

[cat fever]

I have moved twice to get in a more rural area. I think I've found the place since it's cold for 5 months a year.
I understand people wanting the rural life and then all of a sudden it's not rural anymore. The one's who upset me are those who move into mountainous/forested areas then want to kill all the wildlife because of one reason or another. Those people moved INTO the bear/cougar habitat not the other way around, deal with it.

 

[rScotty]

I have moved twice to get in a more rural area. I think I've found the place since it's cold for 5 months a year.
I understand people wanting the rural life and then all of a sudden it's not rural anymore. The one's who upset me are those who move into mountainous/forested areas then want to kill all the wildlife because of one reason or another. Those people moved INTO the bear/cougar habitat not the other way around, deal with it.

W did the same thing. Moving farther out. Although we call ourselves rural - and we are by western standards - a lot of people would say we are more remote than rural.

Oddly enough, as any rural person knows there are always some animals that either don't mind people or who actually like to be sociable. I hate it when they hunted.... and they are the ones who seem to be.

But that's just the critters that we see everyday. At least we get a chance to know them.

The ones I worry most about aren't the big ones... it's the little guys you rarely interact with. The whole base of our woodland life. The insects, birds, plants, and small animals killed indiscriminately by people spreading their pesticides, weed killers, and other deliberate chemical poisons.

Why did they move here if what they wanted was to re-create the town they came from?

rScotty

 

[MinnesotaEric]

I drive a road home generally after work a lot times (right around here you cross into a different county). The other day, on this road, signs all over the road stating "Save Conrad Road, STOP the development". Couldn't figure out what the deal was.

Then in yesterdays paper, found it...

Neighbors battle plan to build 61 houses on tree-lined Conrad Road in Lewisville

Developers eyeing a 58-acre tract along scenic Conrad Road being opposed by neighbors and nearby residents.

journalnow.com

Funny thing, what the paper doesn't tell you is all the McMansions with 5 acres built 3 or 4 years ago parked off the same road. I just find it funny people spend at least 700k on homes with 5 acres in a rural area and now are fighting more homes going up around them. I get it, but a part of me thinks "tough titties".

THIS is why we went in the hole and bought our land. I expect down the road that people may build across our rural road, and God knows how may houses could be built on that land, BUT...ain't no one building in front or in back of our house LOL

Coming from Lewisville, this smaller house went up at the beginning of Conrad road. I can't imagine why ANONE would buy a house with the height difference of ground no more than 20' in front of your home (it's like 5' wide flat in front of the house and then a hill...).

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This comes up all the time in real estate. As a real estate broker, my answer to the question of maintaining privacy is to suggest to people asking, that they buy up all the adjoining real estate. Bigger projects like this generally are run past the county environmental office, then the city and or township commissions, and then the county planning commission. Normally, local real estate laws get set by the local developers, and resistance or acceptance is determined by the local area's interest in growing or not growing.

 

[rScotty]

This comes up all the time in real estate. As a real estate broker, my answer to the question of maintaining privacy is to suggest to people asking, that they buy up all the adjoining real estate. Bigger projects like this generally are run past the county environmental office, then the city and or township commissions, and then the county planning commission. Normally, local real estate laws get set by the local developers, and resistance or acceptance is determined by the local area's interest in growing or not growing.

 

[Oaktree]

Here's the good news: property tax increases are capped at 3% per year in Michigan, if, IF, you don't do anything drastic to the property that would trigger a full re-assessment. So any further improvements I do to my house and property will be without permits, or else I'm kinda f^&*d.

Do they not do periodic property re-assessments in Michigan? They do around here, in N.H. towns are required to re-assess every 10 years max.
Kinda sucks in a way if you've owned property for a long time but in reality it's more fair, not sticking a disproportionate amount of the tax burden on recent buyers.

 

[Oaktree]

This comes up all the time in real estate. As a real estate broker, my answer to the question of maintaining privacy is to suggest to people asking, that they buy up all the adjoining real estate.

All well and good in theory, but in practice a lot of these large lot transactions are done on the QT, with the property never actually listed...the owners approached a developer directly, with sale prices out of reach of most private parties.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

61 homes on 58 acres. If they were 5 acre lots there would be less opposition.

 

[BravoXray]

When I moved to my present location in 1974, I was surrounded on two sides by farm land, and a small development behind me, and an existing home on the south. Now, I still have a hay field directly across the the road, 20 houses to the north, there were only three back then, and over 500 in three developments to the south, southwest and southeast. My road is very busy with traffic going to and coming from US 20 a miles north, to the point where I don't really feel safe walking along it now.
I've planted pine trees on three sides of my lot, and at least now I can barely see houses on those sides.
Other than the inconsiderate A-holes with painfully loud trucks, cars and motorcycles that go by in the morning and late afternoon, it's still fairly quiet here.

 

[Sigarms]

61 homes on 58 acres. If they were 5 acre lots there would be less opposition.

BINGO! That said, per local ordinances, lots in that area need to be a minimum of 3 acres.

Actually an update to the original story, the development was actually shot down by the town.

Round two with some changes most likely coming...

My wife was showing me where the proposed development was going to go while we were driving the other day. I was wrong where I thought it was going to go. I thought that they would put it further away down the road in some fields away from the McMansions. WRONG. They were going to put it smack dab right about halfway down the road and then clear out land behind some of the McMansions. In my mind, I couldn't imagine someone picking such an area that would get opposition.