^ if you reread, my surprise wasn't that there was a favored direction for sprawl, it was that DTW seemed to do little to attract further sprawl around it.
major airports are typically huge economic generators, supporting thousands upon thousands of direct and ancillary jobs, so I was a little surprised to see literal farms due south of DTW and not housing developments for some of those workers.
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Originally Posted by iheartthed
I believe much of the Erie lakefront in Monroe County is protected land and owned by the state. Also, Grosse Ile is one of the most expensive communities in Wayne County. It's located at the mouth of the Detroit River in southern Wayne County.
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Does Monroe county have strong green-belt or other anti-sprawl laws in place? I ask because metro Detroit sprawl spilling southwest seems to stop dead in its tracks at the Huron river, which forms the Monroe/Wayne border.
Google maps says it's only a 25 minute drive from the Huron river into downtown, which is actually fairly close-in from a time perspective