Quote Originally Posted by ghettopalmetto View Post
So, how many people lived in the Hall Road area before the road was widened into a highway, public utilities constructed, and schools, fire, and police protection provided?

In other words--were PEOPLE clamoring to live in the Hall Road area, or were the DEVELOPERS clamoring to pave over the orchards? I ask this, because people generally don't "demand" to live in open fields with no roads, water, sewer, electricity, schools, or fire and police protection.

Where people wish to live and where developers wish to develop usually go hand in hand. As to the infrastructure part, it would be disingenuous not to admit that there are definitely chicken/egg elements, but I would suggest that is fairly universal, and could just as easily be applied to anything. To suggest that there wasn't demand would be in error.