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What to Do About Suburban Sprawl: Use Statewide Standards |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Deron Lovaas |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 1,425 Words, 9,423 Characters |
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Some on the right have jumped to the defense of suburban sprawl. Unfortunately, in their eagerness to attack, these reactionaries have turned their venom on people working to accomplish goals conservatives hold dear: cutting taxes, reducing misguided governmental intrusion in community life, protecting small business, and resurrecting the family-based neighborhoods we remember fondly from our childhoods. As counterintuitive as it may seem, conservative voters and smart-growth advocates have much in common.
For most Americans, home ownership is at the heart of their American dream. In this dream, the homes are in cozy neighborhoods, with quiet, intimate streets that aren't always clogged with traffic; around the corner is a grocery for milk and bread; the children walk to school on safe sidewalks every morning; and families swim and fish in nearby lakes. That's the dream we want to protect in our fight against sprawl.
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...of open land by 12 percent.
Healthy, livable suburban communities are not an impossibility--they will simply require discarding the antienvironmental reactionaries' tired rhetoric and learning from the mistakes caused by decades of unplanned growth. How we grow should be a matter of choice, not chance. We can achieve a new destiny for America: healthy communities within easy reach of nature.
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