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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Smart Growth Communities

How would you like to live in a community where you actually saw your neighbors every day? Doesn't that sound nice to you? How would you like to be able to get out and walk to the store, library, ride on bike paths, have shopping and restaurants within walking distance to your home?

I think that sounds like a wonderful idea and it is happening all over the country and I think it is time to happen in El Paso, Texas too.

My sister lives in Portland, Oregon and those type of communities are very popular there and it sounds like the wave of the future. There are alot of mixed use sites within the neighborhood. There are town homes/condos above commercial sites, single family homes, duplexes and all sorts of homes and all built around schools, post offices, stores for shopping,restaurants, play grounds for children, walking paths and bike paths and where people actually get out at the end of the day and get to know the neighbors instead of driving in the garage at night and never coming out again.

The El Paso real estate market could be a place to get this started and with help from the city planners I feel that it would be a definite plus to the city of El Paso