#overdevelopment

[vincentstlouis]

Actions have consequences

[eternalwandering]

Row After Row, October 2024

[nonooddo]

…. It’s worth preserving.

Preserve Our Neighborhood Association is a membership organization formed in February of this year specifically to fight the unwelcome and unwanted overdevelopment proposed by Oddo Developments.

To join you must support the aims of the Association and have a main home in Cedar Creek.

As we have an HOA that is still developer controlled, we have been without actual representation of the interests of homeowners - representation that is not subordinate/subject to the control of developer interests. The Association is free of developer influence and control, free to argue in the interests of its members - who can only be Cedar Creek home owners.

You are welcome to review our charter documents. The Association is incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation under the laws of the State of Kansas.

The Association is committed to preserving and enhancing the unique character and nature of Cedar Creek - free from any motivation to turn a profit, sell off resources, build on unbuilt land, etc.

If you love your home, your neighborhood, your views, your trails, your drive in and out of your streets, your local wildlife and your open spaces… then you need to join the Preserve Our Neighborhood Association.

Submit an application to join today.

PONAssociation@gmail.com

THE FOREGOING IS A FREE PROMOTION OF P.O.N.A.

[tmarshconnors]

Three Months to 32

In three months, I’ll be 32. It’s hard to believe. Three decades of watching this country transform, and not in ways that fill me with pride. Born in the early '90s, I grew up in a Britain that still felt connected to its roots. There were fewer people, fewer houses crammed into every square foot of available land, fewer cars choking the roads. The world didn’t feel so suffocated by tarmac and concrete back then.  

Now? It feels like we’ve traded something irreplaceable for convenience and consumption. Trees are chopped down to make way for cookie-cutter housing estates. Natural wetlands, once teeming with life, are drained and paved over to build car parks and office blocks. We’re manufacturing spaces for people to exist, but we’ve forgotten how to let them *live.*  

I’ve been watching this decline since the early 2000s, but it feels like it’s accelerated with each passing year. There’s an eerie sameness creeping across the country. Once-diverse landscapes are homogenised into sprawling suburbs and soulless developments. The unique charm of towns and villages is buried under identikit high streets, filled with the same chain stores and fast-food outlets.  

Where are the trees? The untouched fields? The rivers meandering through their ancient courses? They’re being replaced by roundabouts, dual carriageways, and miles of grey nothingness. And with them goes the soul of the land, the deep, unspoken connection to something older and wilder than ourselves.  

My heart breaks to see it. It breaks to know that what I loved about this country is vanishing, and that those who come after me will never experience it the way I did. They won’t remember what it felt like to walk through a forest untouched by urban sprawl or to stumble upon a quiet wetland brimming with life.  

I wonder: when did we decide that *more* was always better? More houses, more cars, more people, more *stuff.* It’s not better. It’s suffocating. The balance is gone, and I fear it won’t return.  

As I approach 32, I can’t help but feel a growing urgency. We have to stop this rot before it’s too late. We need to reclaim the wild spaces, preserve what remains, and plant new roots—not just trees, but values. Values that prioritise nature, history, and the things that truly nourish the human spirit.  

Because once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. And I, for one, refuse to let my heart break quietly.  

[ivanhoeresidents]

Ward Meeting 16/5/24 to include Aylesham Peckham Redevelopment discussion

A public meeting to include discussion about the large #AyleshamPeckham development, will be hosted by Southwark Council this Thursday 16 May (7:15pm for a 7:30pm start) at the Harris Academy Peckham. Part of the East Central area joint ward meeting with Community Updates as main topic. Other area developments, such as Peckham Square will also be discussed.

Plans are to be submitted by Berkeley Homes in association with Southwark, for the redevelopment referred to as "The Aylesham Peckham".

Locals are encouraged to attend this Thursday as public awareness remains low.

The Aylesham Centre has been primed for redevelopment ever since Tiger Developments and hedge fund Blackrock revealed their plans to build flats and shops on the site in 2016. In July 2021, Blackrock sold the site to Berkeley and their 2022 version included 3 build phases over a decade for 1050 homes, 14 buildings ranging from 6-27 storeys, a central courtyard and a linear park.

Scaled-down plans were released this February but have yet to win campaigner support. Aylesham Community Action quoted by Southwark News: "The ACA continues to question if this is the right type of development for Peckham ... The new proposals are essentially the same as those rejected by thousands of local people over the last 10 years: the insertion of very large buildings into low-rise, historic Peckham, to create flats that will be unaffordable to most local people, with minimal green or open space.”

An ACA graphic published yesterday in Southwark News shows the buildings will still tower over “historic low-rise Peckham”, with the iconic Jones & Higgins building being dwarfed by huge towers. See https://southwarknews.co.uk/.../graphic-shows-how.../

A petition launched by the group making several demands of Berkeley and Southwark Council has gathered over 3,000 signatures: https://www.change.org/.../we-demand-a-development-that-s...

Campaigners ask if Peckham is set to become the next hi-rise Lewisham.

3 posts in From The Murky Depths worth examining: https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/.../lewisham.../ & https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/.../lesser-known.../ & https://www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/.../lewisham.../?

See the Berkeley exhibition boards at https://theayleshamcentre.community/the-aylesham.../.

More on ACA: https://www.ayleshamcommunityaction.co.uk/

[ocalapost]

https://www.ocalapost.com/commissioners-cave-in-fear-of-being-sued-approve-more-land-to-be-destroyed/

Commissioners cave in fear of being sued, approve more land to be destroyed

Photo; Ocala Post

Marion County -- Out of fear of being sued, Marion County commissioners approved a request to rezone over 22 acres of land next to On Top of the World, located at 8441 SW 9th Street, Ocala. The land will now be overdeveloped with a 312-unit apartment complex and will sit right next to the

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[shygals-slophouse]

verdant garden

[sky-scribbles]

My Hawke, chilling in his life of official mage freedom with his official mage husband: Anders, you've, ah, heard about how two blighted gods have escaped the Fade -

Anders: You are retired.

Hawke: I know, it's just... I do sort of feel like I should maybe do something to stop the army of Darkspawn and everything -

Anders, immobilising him by dropping a cat on his chest: Retired.

[psychomusic]

oc time again! + her town & culture (heavily inspired by pre-roman italic populations)

she is suri sauthon. her story is linked to my swtor imperial agent, tar'x, but most of her life except for the one year away where she meets him, is spent in a town in the mountains of mirial.

despite mirial being cold and desert, and many cities developing underground, her town flourishes thanks to a force nexus, venerated in the form of an ancient, sacred, alive crystal. the ecosystem of that mountain depended on what "the horned crystal" was capable of giving them, but mirialans couldn't live off of that alone, so they developed trade and some rudimental technology, even if oftentimes it was bought thanks to the highly profitable trade of a plant used to make medicines that slowed down aging and had overall healing properties.

note: everything that's generated by this nexus has these healing properties BUT they have to be processed, except for those who bathed in the waters of the cavity under the crystal - the "real" nexus, but not the worshipped one. the waters were sacred but they were not thought to be miraculous, unlike the crystal, who instead was thought of as the keystone of the ecosystem: without it, everything would fall apart (and that is partially true: the cavity was the "real" nexus but thanks to the crystal, also strong in the force, the properties were spread all over the mountains). those who bathed in the cavity's waters - so, all of the town, who had a sort of baptism there - could eat the plant, make whatever food with it, and not only that plant, but everything generated by the nexus, that, again, had similar properties. this allowed people to live up to normal life-spans without advanced medicines or, much, really. to those who didn't live there, though, after the processing, had incredible effects, slowing down aging - for those who took it regularly - and making people able to live up to half a century more than the average]

originally, there were four tribes of nomads that lived thanks to horned farm animals that decided to settle down into one bigger town and other smaller settlements, to live off of transhumance. this division of the tribes stayed into the political and social organization: every person belonged to one tribe specifically, and had slightly different rituals and culture. for examples, each tribe had their own priests and healers, with different techniques and traditions. the town, tho, was guided by a group of people in the high priesthood, a position you could reach only by having earned the trust of all tribes. those high priests had many roles: they guided the people into sacred processions common to all the tribes, they managed the trading with outsiders, they did the maintenance of the temple of the summit (the one that functioned as casket to the crystal) and created a special liquid to offer the crystal that helps it grow.

this particular temple was important because 1. it was very visible, from every angle of the town, and it became an important identity symbol; 2. it stored the venerated horned crystal; 3. it had the altar where sacrifices were made for the crystals. that altar had a hole connected to the cavity, that allowed the liquids to reach the underground; 4. it had various symbols: statues representing each tribe + the high priesthood, and typical mirialan tattoos carved into the wood of the trees that served as columns for the temple, symbolizing 8 values that who dared to enter HAD to have; 5. it was on the way to an important lake (called "mother lake" because the lake the town was built around to depended on the waters of that other lake) where they traveled to in important processions; 6. it was said that a the wizard who unified the tribes made it with its magic, making the plant grow to hold the temple's roof. this wizard was, actually, a force user, obv.

BACK TO HER THOUGH: she's daughter of one of the high priests, who was in charge of managing the trades with outsiders, and lives in a house on the mountains with her mother and him. her parents are from different tribes (that's one of the things that earned him trust from the 4 tribes): when a child is born from two different tribes, they don't pick one to allign to, but they're usually linked automatically to the one with more relatives in it (in her case, the father's tribe: she had many uncles and aunts on his side while her mom only had one sister).

later, though, she got quite tied to her mother's tribe due to a mysterious illness that only her mother's tribe healer was able to cure. she spent 4 years (from 10 to 14 years old) living with the healer and learned her secrets. to better study, she wrote them down. when she returned home, she studied to become a priestess with her father. at 22 (the average age: you can't become priest before your 20s), she was supposed to take a test and become a priestess, but the healer of her mother's tribe died and the tribe asked her to take her place. she couldn't technically do that, but both tribes estimated both her and her parents and she was allowed to become both. she then decided to try to become a high priestess, and became one at 25 (a quite young age). being part of the council, she tried to convince the various tribe healers to unite their knowledges and write them down, and eventually made it. healers still remained tribe based but they now had an "upper, inter-tribe level" similar to high priesthood.

years later, the sacred horned crystal is stolen from the temple by some Hutt mercenaries looking for a profit. given the trust she has earned from all the tribes and the fact that her father is the high priest that deals with outsiders (and she's been hearing stories and advice about it since she was little), she is the one tasked with getting it back. without the growing crystal, the keystone to their ecosystem, the village would have lasted only a few years. in hrr quest, she meets imperial intelligence agent tar'x laran and, as they "solve the mystery" and fight to have it back, they get closer. they'll get married and have a daughter, Vegoia (who's the only one who actually will get to the plot of my story. this was all background)

[padfootastic]

harry’s ‘saving people thing’ comes from james potter and if you disagree, u can bite me because that is the TRUTH

[eternalwandering]

Surrounded, July 2024

[verpine-art]

3B Etain 4H Darman - she’s thinking loudly about his overdeveloped trapezius muscles

this is my magnum opus

repcomm requests open

[th3-0bjectivist]

"Hell-Mouth" - Acrylic paint on canvas

[rad-roche]

quick zevlor sketch

[sunnshineyelllo]

[majianguo]

I snapped this photo behind Om King in Sawangan. It's crazy the amount of development in South Kuta, particulary the regions of Kutuh and Sawangan, soon, in a few years, this will all be villas and housing subdivisions.