How sad
In the historic neighborhood of one Davis County city stood a little white house. The property was about a third of an acre, and a garden took up a great deal of the southern part of the lot. Mature sycamore trees stood in front of the home.
But recently the trees were cut down and the house was razed. Now a significantly larger home is being built on the lot. I'm betting that it will be as ugly as most of the vinyl siding/pink brick/stucco monstrosities that are today's standard. And it will probably require more natural gas for heating and electricity for lighting and appliances.
(Okay, it's entirely possible that the old house was poorly insulated and had old, energy inefficient appliances and light bulbs, but all of those things could have been changed to make the house consume much less energy than the new one will)
In it's previous state, the property had an aesthetically pleasing, somewhat rural charm about it. And someone with the know-how could have practiced some self-sufficiency by growing his or her own food in the large garden.
But it's gone now, and the trashing of our landscape continues.
But recently the trees were cut down and the house was razed. Now a significantly larger home is being built on the lot. I'm betting that it will be as ugly as most of the vinyl siding/pink brick/stucco monstrosities that are today's standard. And it will probably require more natural gas for heating and electricity for lighting and appliances.
(Okay, it's entirely possible that the old house was poorly insulated and had old, energy inefficient appliances and light bulbs, but all of those things could have been changed to make the house consume much less energy than the new one will)
In it's previous state, the property had an aesthetically pleasing, somewhat rural charm about it. And someone with the know-how could have practiced some self-sufficiency by growing his or her own food in the large garden.
But it's gone now, and the trashing of our landscape continues.
posted by Utah Peaknik at 8:08 AM
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I've seen a few of those cancerous monstrosities in the older Clearfield neighborhoods. But I expect that the speculative real estate bubble crash we are in the midst of will sharply curtail that sort of redevelopment for a while. Perhaps long enough for the realities of peak oil to make clear that we already have far more oversized houses than people with the means to own and occupy them.
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