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Old Posted Jul 11, 2007, 2:16 AM
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Originally Posted by jaga185 View Post
There isn't much we can do about this, all of this stuff will happen. Why complain about it, if we can't change it?
Well, sprawl will only happen if you allow it to. Of course you can't halt development or even stifle it, that's where the phrase free market comes from. However, you can set up guidelines to promote smart growth, urban development and you can ban certain construction practices and materials. You can also set up regional guidelines that make it so that a certain area of land has to be developed first before any further development can take place in a metro area. Portland, Oregon has this in place. Developers there have to squeeze in projects to an allotted area before further development can happen. This creates continuous, dense development and allows infrastructure time to catch up such as roads and rail. It also sets up funds for those forms of transportation. Just think of it this way, a city isn't going to provide higher capacity roads, bus service or rail service for a few spotty developments on the city's fringes since it wouldn't make economic sense to cater to those few spotty projects. However, fill in that area with projects that are dense and set up a fund to pay for that transportation, and it would be economical. This cuts down on sprawl, promotes density and improves transportation doing away with traffic jams.
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