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USDA 2024 Aerial Imagery Now Available For Download In Texas!🛩️🛰️
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datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/ <-- shared USDA Geospatial Data Gateway (i.e., download the raster aerials here)
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“The USDA has released its 2024 National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) aerial imagery, providing high-resolution, 1-meter data for all 254 Texas counties…
✅ Newly built bridge and highway infrastructure
✅ Stormwater & drainage evaluations (newly built drainage infrastructure)
✅ Right-of-way assessment (environmental analysis)…”
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Rather than pursuing a high-rise slum future, immigration should be limited to a level below the nation’s capacity to provide high-quality housing and infrastructure, and within the natural environment’s carrying capacity, particularly water. Lower, sustainable immigration, in line with the pre-2005 average, will encourage the building sector to focus on quality over quantity and help alleviate the housing shortfall. The high-rise apartment boom of the last decade was an unmitigated disaster that we are still paying for.

#immigrationpolicy #sustainablegrowth #housingcrisis #urbanplanning #australianhousing #qualityoverquantity #populationcontrol #watersecurity #infrastructureplanning #highriseboom #auspol #betternotbigger

macrobusiness.com.au/2024/09/a

MacroBusiness · Australians still paying the price for last decade's apartment boomLast decade saw an unprecedented number of high-rise apartment complexes constructed across Australia. A litany of structural defects uncovered in a 2019 Four Corners investigation entitled “Cracking Up” and elsewhere accompanied the high volume of apartments. “We’ve got a real problem here. It’s systemic and it’s infecting lots of buildings across the landscape, in all