The town went berserk! "Think of the children" was the cry. Bumper stickers and yard signs everywhere you looked. Turns out...the thing was never built.
And more recently a similar project was proposed in Weston,Massachusetts...a Boston suburb that's listed as the richest,and one of the most "progressive,in the state. Again,driving through today there are yard signs everywhere "No To The Weston Whopper!"
Leftists are phonies...and rich leftists are the worst.
The big thing here in southern NH is cluster developments.
After the real estate boom in the 1980s all of these towns west of Nashua/Manchester put in zoning codes to limit growth.
Most rural towns require 200’ of road frontage and 1-3 acres for a single family home. This allows for a drilled well and septic to be installed on the lot. It slowed growth.
About twenty years ago they started allowing the total acreage to be considered as jointly owned. So, now a builder will petition the planning board to accept this development method. They build ten houses real close together. They put in a community septic system and a few drilled wells to service all ten houses. This saves the developer fixed site costs like the amount of pavement/piping/utility costs. Then instead of selling the houses as single family homes. They are technically freestanding “condos”. The association owns the land surrounding where the houses are actually built.
They built a small subdivision down the street from me about a mile into the adjacent town just like that. They built ten houses on twenty acres. All the houses are on a street about 300’ long about 20’ apart. The land around them is still woods.
I had to ‘google’ it - too funny...
It is hilarious to look at the demographics of many of the wealthier suburbs and rural areas in Massachusetts.
They have turned segregation into an art form—while decrying racism.
On some other forums (where real racists hang out) I always tell them to forget everything they have ever learned about Massachusetts—in many towns it is the Whitopia they are seeking.