The typical struggle between developers and environmentalists is portrayed as "growth" vs. "no-growth." That is not necessarily true, however. In this set of pictures, you will see a place we built more than 50 years ago that minimized environmental impacts for development, not just then, but today too. You will also see an extraordinarily valuable bit of real estate because of how it was built. This is a look at McKinley Park, a pre-1950's Sacramento Neighborhood that is still a desirable place to live (Desirable! heck I can't afford to live there!).
Here, you can see it's a large park
surrounded by homes
,
offices
,
at least one church,
shops and restaurants
.
and some homes that qualify as mansions, in my book:
(notice the shared driveway, and the grannie flat over the garage behind the house).