GROWTH: Not a positive to everyone

When I glanced at the picture on the cover of the North Idaho Business Journal I thought it was just a stock picture of some town in California. When I looked closely at the picture it made me sad to realize that this was a picture of what Coeur d’Alene is becoming. Do we really want our town to look like Anytown, USA, with housing developments sprawled all over the prairie, and houses and streets that look exactly the same? I don’t know what the answer is but I hate seeing the beautiful town that I grew up in and the farms and green fields become housing developments.

SUSAN PURDY

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