Many years ago, I proposed a system of growth management that seemed a lot more effective and efficient than relying on zoning and market influences. Zoning is a pretty limited tool. The market, of course, is the market given to wild swings and gyrations, too hot sometimes, too cold at others, and very difficult for anybody to predict, let alone regulate. There had to be a better way.
Park Record columnist Tom Clyde.
At the time, I proposed a simple, yet elegant solution. The proposal was to put an auto wrecking yard on the entrance to town. The site I had in mind is now the McLeod Creek neighborhood, but way back when, it was vacant land on the very edge of town. The topography offered some advantages because there were low spots that were hard to see from the highway and high spots that were impossible to miss driving into town.