Simply Amazing

kygardenkygarden Registered Users Posts: 1,060 Major grins
edited March 31, 2006 in Landscapes
In a bad way though. We go to the Smoky Mountain National Park every year. We like to drive around and look at the craft shops too. While driving around the other day, I saw this. I couldn't believe how insane it looked! It's almost like cabin strip mining or something...lol If the thought process is to build pretty cabins in a pretty setting for people to rent out or buy, I think they failed. This looks really stupid and what they did to that hillside is a shame. I don't mind sensible logging and so on, but sometime commercial developments do some really stupid things. This would appear to be one of them. Just outside of Gatlinburg, TN...

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  • Scott_QuierScott_Quier Registered Users Posts: 6,524 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2006
    Very nicethumb.gif . It looks almost surreeal. Have you thought about cloning out the power line in the second image?
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  • kygardenkygarden Registered Users Posts: 1,060 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2006
    Scott_Quier wrote:
    Very nicethumb.gif . It looks almost surreeal. Have you thought about cloning out the power line in the second image?

    Thanks :) I havdn't given much thought to the photos other than what was happening on the hillside there...Laughing.gif I wasn't even planning on keeping these. Maybe I will though.
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  • liquidsquidliquidsquid Registered Users Posts: 63 Big grins
    edited March 29, 2006
    Oh lord, have these developers no sense of pride?!? A good forest fire would clean this up nice (while nobody was home because who would live there?) If I lived nearby and saw this thing on the table for zoning, it would have never gotten that far. The lots would be much larger, perhaps only 6 houses total. Idiots!

    I wonder if eminant domain was used in this case. Probably some person that lives in CA built this so they don't have to look at it.

    -LS
  • MarkM6MarkM6 Registered Users Posts: 97 Big grins
    edited March 30, 2006
    Arrrrrrrr
    Hey... that looks like Orange County, California!!! Each would be about $1mill :D
    I shell name this the Moguls Hill...
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited March 30, 2006
    gee-welcome to gatlinburg-

    no eminent domain here or I believe I would have seen something in the news-

    just pure greed is all I know-

    I'm no raging environmentalist but this is something to think about-will try to research this-asinine-

    kygarden-thanks for posting-
    george
  • PossumCornerPossumCorner Registered Users Posts: 290 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2006
    kygarden wrote:
    ... and what they did to that hillside is a shame. ...
    It sure is, and the soil erosion situation being set up for that little valley is unforgiveable. I really thought we had the concession here on stupid local laws allowing these kind of Building-permits, but obviously not. The old Pete Seeger song comes to mind, "Little boxes made of ticky-tacky and they all look just the same".
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  • kygardenkygarden Registered Users Posts: 1,060 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2006
    gefillmore wrote:
    gee-welcome to gatlinburg-

    no eminent domain here or I believe I would have seen something in the news-

    just pure greed is all I know-

    I'm no raging environmentalist but this is something to think about-will try to research this-asinine-

    kygarden-thanks for posting-
    george

    Sounds like some of you might be local to that area. If you want to go see it, I think it's on Bird Creek Rd. I just looked on the map...that was the road. We were taking the back way to get back to Gatlinburg from Pigeon Forge.
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  • wholenewlightwholenewlight Registered Users Posts: 1,529 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2006
    kygarden wrote:
    Sounds like some of you might be local to that area. If you want to go see it, I think it's on Bird Creek Rd. I just looked on the map...that was the road. We were taking the back way to get back to Gatlinburg from Pigeon Forge.

    I found them on realtor.com last night. About $200K
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  • KodachromeKodachrome Registered Users Posts: 47 Big grins
    edited March 30, 2006
    kygarden wrote:
    I just looked on the map...that was the road. We were taking the back way to get back to Gatlinburg from Pigeon Forge.

    rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif

    ...what do the tick tacky buildings overlook...a million dollar view??

    ...maybe they are ski cabins...might look betta with 20feet of snow...headscratch.gif
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2006
    That second one, may be a crop, but it looks gorgeous in its simplicity, and, of course, living in Charleston, the South Carolina, I hate almost all, if not all development. But that is amusingly beautiful.

    Now if someone would please, well, delete the houses, not the photograph, smile.

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  • marlofmarlof Registered Users Posts: 1,833 Major grins
    edited March 31, 2006
    People will have a lot of trouble finding their own home. "I live in the third one of the second row from the bottom. Or was in the second one in the third row from the top". I think I would have liked the hill better in the before shot.
    enjoy being here while getting there
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