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With significant areas of [[The Valley (Urcea)|the Valley]] marked as preservation zones, construction of housing had to shift to further afield. The various provisions of the FLA inaugurated a new era of home construction in Urcea, as new, very-low-density exurban developments began to be planned in compliance with the building code changes under the FLA. A second wave of subdivision construction occurred beginning in 2005 and ending in 2014, bringing a large number of new subdivisions to the outer portions of the Valley and parts of the [[Urcean frontier]]. Unlike the previous century's developments, special care was taken in the construction of these subdivisions to be compliant with the FLA's intent to preserve greenspace, a provision that also necessarily led to larger average property sizes for homeowners in 2025 as compared to 1985. The more traditional exurban street model combined with the rapid construction of urban-town-and-country style developments to move many Urceans out of the suburbs and into more cohesive, if further, residential communities. | With significant areas of [[The Valley (Urcea)|the Valley]] marked as preservation zones, construction of housing had to shift to further afield. The various provisions of the FLA inaugurated a new era of home construction in Urcea, as new, very-low-density exurban developments began to be planned in compliance with the building code changes under the FLA. A second wave of subdivision construction occurred beginning in 2005 and ending in 2014, bringing a large number of new subdivisions to the outer portions of the Valley and parts of the [[Urcean frontier]]. Unlike the previous century's developments, special care was taken in the construction of these subdivisions to be compliant with the FLA's intent to preserve greenspace, a provision that also necessarily led to larger average property sizes for homeowners in 2025 as compared to 1985. The more traditional exurban street model combined with the rapid construction of urban-town-and-country style developments to move many Urceans out of the suburbs and into more cohesive, if further, residential communities. | ||
===Death of suburban development=== | ===Death of suburban development=== | ||
The building code requirements and preservation zone provisions within the FLA marked the effective death of the legal construction of traditional suburban subdivisions. While construction on medium-density suburbs had | The building code requirements and preservation zone provisions within the FLA marked the effective death of the legal construction of traditional suburban subdivisions. While construction on medium-density suburbs had effectively halted for economic reasons by [[1995]], the construction and real estate markets had rebounded significantly by [[2003]] and dozens of new subdivisions were under planning or already permitted as of the time the Act was signed into law. Throughout the late 2000s, a handful of additional new suburban developments were completed, either by being grandfathered in or by receiving a preservation zone exemption, but by [[2010]] nearly all developers had shifted to exurbs, UTC-model, or both. Studies indicate that, in addition to the significant incentives towards other models under the FLA, the cost of obtaining an exemption within the zones and the building code changes made suburban projects not economically viable in most places for most developers. | ||
===Rise of the UTCs=== | ===Rise of the UTCs=== | ||
===Sociological improvements=== | ===Sociological improvements=== | ||