http://blogkc.com/archives/2008/03/local-housing-market-improves-a-bit/ A Weblog for Kansas City, Missouri. Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:10:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blogkc.com/archives/2008/03/local-housing-market-improves-a-bit/comment-page-1/#comment-191268 bahua Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:14:05 +0000 http://blogkc.com/archives/2008/03/local-housing-market-improves-a-bit/#comment-191268 I can see how building permits can indicate the health of the economy, but it definitely doesn't tell me anything positive about the health of the city. It seems to me that in the vast majority of cases, a building permit is acquired to allow the construction of a new building, where currently there is nature or agriculture. Kansas City granting more building permits means to me that KC, despite downtown's successes, is still addicted to sprawl, and that's bad news to me. I can see how building permits can indicate the health of the economy, but it definitely doesn’t tell me anything positive about the health of the city. It seems to me that in the vast majority of cases, a building permit is acquired to allow the construction of a new building, where currently there is nature or agriculture. Kansas City granting more building permits means to me that KC, despite downtown’s successes, is still addicted to sprawl, and that’s bad news to me.

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