Local Organization for Transportation Planning
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A few years ago when the Tri-State Expressway was being planned in the Calumet area, several subdividers were at the same time busy planning several construction jobs in the same area. Unable to ascertain the route of the expressway, they proceeded with their new home construction projects and within a year after the houses were finished 70 of them had to be condemned. It cost more than a million dollars worth of damages for right-of-way that could have been reserved by earlier announcement of the expressway route. Planning would have paid off in this instance. It certainly cost not to plan, in this case.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015