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The increment of new development will be the single building lot, if we are lucky, and most of the codes that are now enforced will be ignored because the redundancies they mandate will not be affordable.

James Howard Kunstler

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James Howard Kunstler
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 19
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