Streets are a similar sore point with the newcomers. Many of their subdivisions are reachable only by roads that are little more than paved wagon trails. Most of Highland Creek's morning traffic spills out the south entrance and onto Prosperity Church Road. The traffic back-ups are notorious. You're plunking several thousand dwelling units on two old country roads.
Officials say they're constantly struggling to keep up.
But the phenomenal growth of some areas has stretched them beyond their limits. And this is just the leading wave. Once sewer service is available east of Huntersville, as it is to the west, where the last decade's growth occurred, he expects the same kind of big bang to happen there. This is what we'll be seeing for the next 10 or 15 years. Scott Dodd covers growth and development.