exurban

Something like one of these multimillion dollar condos would have doomed Edwards, but 28,200 square feet in exurban North Carolina is solid.

Matthew Yglesias » Edwards’ Big House 2007

That place gives a new meaning to "exurban" - the only place farther from a growing city is the Aleutian Islands.

Philocrites: Unitarian Universalists 'invading the Bible belt.' 2005

And the Republicans turned out their base in the so - called exurban communities, the fast-growing new towns that have grown up beyond the narrower suburban ring.

CNN Transcript Nov 26, 2004 2004

In this month's election, President Bush carried 97 of the nation's 100 fastest-growing counties, most of them "exurban" communities that are rapidly transforming farmland into subdivisions and shopping malls on the periphery of major metropolitan areas.

Archive 2004-11-01 2004

In this month's election, President Bush carried 97 of the nation's 100 fastest-growing counties, most of them "exurban" communities that are rapidly transforming farmland into subdivisions and shopping malls on the periphery of major metropolitan areas.

From On High 2004

PAUL SCHWARTZ, CLEAN WATER ACTION: The spread of the population from our urban cores to our suburban and exurban, meaning sort of sprawled out communities in what used to be farm fields, is threatening our rivers through what I like to call death by 1,000 cuts.

CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2003 2003

So far, Wilbur Smith has proposed the parish be divided into three zoning tiers: an urban tier with stricter zoning codes around Bossier City, an "exurban" tier with looser requirements outside of urban tier, all the way around from Benton to south Bossier, and a third, rural tier with just rudimentary zoning in the furthest reaches of the parish.

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Furthermore, urban centers today now spread far beyond traditional city limits, with suburban and now "exurban" sprawl invading what were until recently rural landscapes.

Charleston Daily Mail - Opinion 2009

So far, Wilbur Smith has proposed the parish be divided into three zoning tiers: an urban tier with stricter zoning codes around Bossier City, an "exurban" tier with looser requirements outside of urban tier, all the way around from Benton to south Bossier, and a third, rural tier with just rudimentary zoning in the furthest reaches of the parish.

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The population had grown, and a big new exurban belt surrounded the Twin Cities.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010