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Originally Posted by mhays
But Detroit seems to have the opposite problem...land is plentiful and apparently cheap, or generally has been. That's how office buildings have large setbacks and surface parking for example.
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That's because there was so much open farmland ready for development. You'll still find that in a few places such as northern Macomb County, though many of those townships have been attempting to protect the farmland from development. Otherwise, for the most part the Tri-County area is done generating massive sprawlburbs. The few rural townships on the perimeter are zoned for large-lot residential and limited commercial/industry and most have no ambitions of becoming the next edge city. Washtenaw County is really the only other option, and like northern Macomb, most of the rural townships have made great efforts to protect their farmland. Superior TWP, which would otherwise be on its way to the next 90,000+ sprawlburb remains largely undeveloped because township leaders want it that way. Urban development is limited to the area south of Geddes Rd.