Drew Sharpe, 10th grade, West Iredell High

Imagine what Iredell County would look like without the farms we have now:  land consumed by urban sprawl and overpopulation.  Well, it’s happening right now.  Iredell is loosing its beautiful, vast land and we are over-populated.  What I would like to see in Iredell in the next ten to fifty years is for rampant commercial development to slow down and a limit on the amount of houses out of state contractors can build. 

The reason out of state construction needs to stop is because these contractors don’t care what they do to the land.  They don’t have to be here when the building collapses five years later.  The future of the county should not be left up to people without a vested interest in the land.     

The farm land issue is a different story.  Generations and times change, and the ethics that built this county, like love for one’s land, are being lost with today’s youth.  When the descendants of Iredell inherit land they don’t want anything to do with they sell it.  This behavior leads to land losing its meaning.

As Charlie Horton once said in 1960, “In fifty years Iredell will be the bedroom of Charlotte.”  We are now forty-eight years away and look how close we are to fulfilling this idea.  We can act now by not selling our land to out-of-state developers and working together to keep the land beautiful. The damage is already done, but who says a band-aid never helped? 

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