Sprawl Is Like the Weather
by Brent Thompson
Sprawl and low density development are closely related, argues Brent Thompson, a planning commissioner from Ashland, Oregon.
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Why do officials continue to contribute to land
wasting development practices even when they would often profess
to being against sprawl as well as being advocates of people
being able to exercise their property rights to the fullest?
One reason is the widely held belief in the virtues of low
density development. In the approval process for almost any
development, there is a call for lowering the development's
density. But those who testify against higher density don't seem
to realize that the cumulative result of lower density
development is sprawl.
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