Bill Taft: Let’s try thinking like a farmer to grow urban housing

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  1. Unfortunately Bill, as you already know, Indy doesn’t and won’t promote these types of initiatives unless it follows our highly political and antiquated approval and zoning process. And most of our liberal urban population have no idea how farmers may think.

  2. I actually know several young developers working in Indy who are already thinking this way, and some of them actually grew up on farms!

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