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2025-07-23 16:17 UTC
@bkeegan @boulderreportinglab Speaking for Durham and Chapel Hill on your final chart, it's a somewhat misleading comparison given that both cities, but particularly Durham, engaged in a truly aggressive annexation campaign designed to capture extensive suburban growth in the county, particularly related to the construction of I-40. The "old," central parts of both towns had low or negative growth until the aughts when it reversed post-housing crisis.
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@MichaelTBacon@social.coop 2025-07-23 16:19
@bkeegan @boulderreportinglab The land area covered by the city of Durham more than doubled in what I generally call the "great leap south", which left a band of growth along the I-40 corridor and around RTP and a wide swath of incorporated but undeveloped forest that didn't truly fill in until the last 15 years, and is still partially visible (around MLK Boulevard, largely).