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	Cottage Editorial

obvious

2-26-2008 10:47 AM

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Great quote: Small is a radical departure... but reality is hitting home.

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How does any community these days attract young professionals and retain newlyweds and empty nesters when housing costs remain out of sight?</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2008/02/15/opinion/opinion01.txt">Mirrione argues that his company can provide one remedy to population drift - cottages clustered three to five per acre, with maximum size of the one- or two-bedroom units 999-square-feet</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2008/02/15/opinion/opinion01.txt">many of these buyers could be teachers, college professors, white-collar business people</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2008/02/15/opinion/opinion01.txt"><DIV>As NECC would surely point out, cottage housing is not only an option but for some families may be a rung up toward more expensive housing in a town where the median price of a home rose from $268,900 in 2000 to $415,000 in 2005. "Small" is a radical departure from America's litmus test of success, a sprawling edifice on immense acreage. But reality is hitting home with the recent red flags regarding the R word - recession - and an awareness among some people that larger is not necessarily better.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/46E8F88A-48E9-44D2-A57A-800A0743CC19/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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