Austinist: Georgetown Goes Green With New Subdivision

Grape Ape

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:33:24 -0600

Well said Tim & even you M1EK. I think this is just capitalization on a fad. They know people are trying to be green because its cool and they know they'll be able to charge a lot more for the homes this way while not really doing much for the environment at all.

LoudMouth

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:42:17 -0600

What's so bad about sprawl. You live out in sprawless West Texas for a few years and then tell me you don't want development sprawl. Anything's better than nothing when there's nothing to do in your town but rape a couple of farm animals.

tim

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:18:54 -0600

Yeah, it would be really nice to see someone say, "part of our 'master plan' involves a grocery store the neighbors can walk to and we're negotiating with Capital Metro to get bus service to our development."

mdahmus

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:26:48 -0600

Paige, thanks for addressing the "green sprawl" issue. Well done. Green houses which still require that you drive 20,000 miles per year are only a bit better than normal tract houses in the same place - neither one is as good as the least efficient house or apartment from which you can walk, bike, ride the bus, or just drive a lot less.

M_Twilson

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:14:41 -0600

That was very informative. Thank you. I only wish we could get the type of people that move to those places to read this.