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This paper presents lessons learned from the development process of Windy Ridge, a subdivision in Charlotte, North Carolina, that drew national media attention as a community destined to be “The Next Slum” (Atlantic Monthly 2008). The development was aided by a city as growth machine environment that failed this and other neighborhoods through the lapse of proper planning oversight. Rather than laying...