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Originally Posted by esquire
^ Ditches in urban industrial parks are a bit much IMO. You want rural servicing standards, go to the country.
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The context of my post was new industrial development on the edges of a city.
Industrial neighborhoods typically evolve over time. 1/4 sections typically get subdivided into a handful or two of very large lots. Predominantly used by pipe yards, salvage and wreckers, storage, fabrication yards. basically large lots that need very little permanent infrastructure and only really care about cheap land and access to transportation. The gravel for the yard costs more than the buildings they erect.
At some point, this land that was on the edge of the city, now has many sections of similar development between it and the egde of the city. Taxes become higher, trucks entering and exiting yards every ten minutes with pipe get backed up with traffic..etc.. and this land is no longer suitable for land intensive operations.
Parcels get gobbled up, and redevelopment occurs. large pipe yards get subdivided, new roads added, and we start to see the light industrial operations with "permanent infrastructure" expensive manufacturing facilities, logistics, commercial frontages with warehouse behind kind of thing. At this point, we start to see the urbanization of the infrastructure.
Take a look at a satellite map of Edmonton. Start on 75th street north of Whitemud and scroll to the West. It shows this type of thing happening right before our eyes.