{"id":10312,"date":"2018-09-26T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=10312"},"modified":"2018-09-24T00:50:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T05:50:39","slug":"towns-worth-of-housing-coming-to-bondurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/towns-worth-of-housing-coming-to-bondurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Town&#8217;s worth of housing coming to Bondurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, the Bondurant city council approved plats for two developments that will add 240 homes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/local\/bondurant\/2018\/09\/11\/bondurant-homes-quail-run-park-side-vista-real-estate-construction-lots-bondurant-home-sales\/1202327002\/\">the <em>Des Moines Register<\/em> reported.<\/a>\u00a0The once-small suburb more than doubled in population between 2000 and 2010 to become Iowa&#8217;s 99th-largest city. In 2015, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofbondurant.com\/webres\/File\/City%20Council\/City%20Council%20Minutes\/Minutes%2015-23.pdf\">a special census reported a population of 5481<\/a>, vaulting it past SIXTEEN county seats and closing in on more.<\/p>\n<p>Now, while &#8220;housing units&#8221; include individual apartments in federal census statistics, those are practically nonexistent in rural Iowa. With that taken into account, building 240 houses is roughly the 2010 census equivalent of adding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Burt (pop. 533, 232 housing units)<\/li>\n<li>Delmar (pop. 525, 227 housing units)<\/li>\n<li>Garwin (pop. 527, 254 housing units)<\/li>\n<li>Latimer (pop. 507, 230 housing units)<\/li>\n<li>Maynard (pop. 518, 239 housing units)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You get the idea. Adding merely the 440th-largest city in Iowa (Garwin) to what officially was the 99th-largest but is now unofficially around 71st would propel Bondurant past seven <em>more<\/em> county seats to be breathing down Orange City&#8217;s neck at the 6000 mark.<\/p>\n<p>That is, if it didn&#8217;t happen already. The special census was three years ago, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, the Bondurant city council approved plats for two developments that will add 240 homes, the Des Moines Register reported.\u00a0The once-small suburb more than doubled in population between 2000 and 2010 to become Iowa&#8217;s 99th-largest city. In 2015, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/towns-worth-of-housing-coming-to-bondurant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10314,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions\/10314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}