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Articles related to land use and sprawl in early September, 2003...
social and cultural dangers of poor land use planning... sprawl makes
people fat, and fat people make sprawl... some articles of planning
interest from the states..
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1. National Geographic News, Thu, Sep 4, 2003
Science or Technology / Internet / Daily
... rapidly disappearing open space. Often, battlefields offer a snapshot of what this country looked like before sprawl began its relentless march across the landscape. More than a dozen preservation and citizens groups have mobilized...
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Ain't it the truth: "...You can build a McDonald's any day of the
week. But there's only one Mount Vernon. There's only one Monticello.
And there's only one Chancellorsville..."
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2. San Gabriel Valley Tribune (CA), Sun, Aug 31, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Over time, they became ashamed of their upbringing and saw urban sprawl as destroying the Earth and exploiting animals. So say two experts who talked about the operations of the Earth...
side realized, why refrain from these actions? It's ridiculous not to carry forward in light of the destruction of the environment and the exploitation of animals.' Coronado spent 57 months in federal lockup for a 1995 firebombing at a...
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The ultimate result of decades of poor land use and development
policies: dangerous social conflict. "The ELF can't be crushed... It
is a powerful new movement and they can't be stopped. ELF behavior is
not a protest letter. It's a can of gasoline and a match..."
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3. Port St. Lucie News (FL), Sun, Aug 31, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... years since Congress passed a law designed to give them the upper hand in zoning disputes. Growth and conflict The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 prohibits governments from "burdening" the exercise of religion unless...
God of Vero Beach lost a legal bid to keep the facility out of their agriculturally zoned neighborhood. Today, the church sits at 1105 58th...
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More symptoms of public misunderstanding of land use policy:
"...Somebody who makes a perfectly good-faith, responsible land-use
decision based on traffic impact or visual impact suddenly finds
themselves being accused on a national Web site of being a religious
bigot..."
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4. North Lake Tahoe Bonanza (NV), Fri, Sep 5, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... as the number of times the levels exceed the health and safety standards. The basin exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standards for CO concentrations at 9 parts per million in 1992....
the issue of air quality. Transportation projects are evaluated by TRPA based on land use, water quality, wildlife disturbances, vegetation, lighting hindrances, effect on natural resources,...
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Universal truth: "...There lies the bane and the blessing of trying
to strike the balance between attracting visitors for the economy's
sake while keeping Tahoe pristine. Some refer to it as loving Tahoe
to death..."
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5. Register-Guard (OR), Sun, Aug 31, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Sprawl? Bring it on In response to Bill Moshofsky's inspiring guest viewpoint (Register-Guard, Aug. 26) on Oregon land reform, I must say this: Outstanding!...
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Hehe... sarcasm strikes: "...Building up will simply not do. These
three-story buildings in town are preposterous, what we should be
looking forward to - in the future, that is - are single-story
concrete cities as far as the eye can see. It's absurd that we
should reduce ourselves to expanding vertically when there are all
these ineffectual national forest lands that could easily use a few
inner-city shopping centers..."
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6. News Journal (DE), Wed, Sep 3, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... Utah's Gov. Leavitt not likely to change Bush on environment 09/02/2003 If President George W. Bush's selection of Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt as the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency is an attempt to improve his image, he may have selected the wrong person for the job...
once again. Gov. Leavitt's environmental record is not awful but it...
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The politics don't help: "...Gov. Leavitt's environmental record in
Utah is spotty at best. Despite his image as a consensus builder,
environmentalists provide compelling examples of his bad decisions on
public lands, wetlands preservation and urban sprawl..."
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7. Multi-Housing News, Wed, Sep 3, 2003
Business / Magazine / Daily
... * Agritopia: Gilbert, Ariz.; 460 to 750 units; mixed-use community comprising homes, urban agricultural and commercial uses. * Springhouse Pond: Sudbury, Mass.; 49 units; townhomes for empty...
* ParkCrest at Innisbrook I: Tarpon Springs, Fla.; 432 units; garden apartments in a resort environment. * ParkCrest at Innisbrook II: Tarpon Springs, Fla.; 397 units; mix...
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Meanwhile, the volume of new development nationwide is amazing --
even from just one firm: "...While there are hundreds of firms
around the country that design multi-housing communities, a select
few stand apart from the pack in terms of their influence and the
respect they've earned from both developers and their architect
peers..."
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8. New York Times (NY), Thu, Sep 4, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... issues on the subject that indicate a significant connection between sprawl and obesity and between sprawl and hypertension. The number of miles Americans travel on the roads has doubled since...
1963, according to Richard J. Jackson, an environmental epidemiologist and the director of the National Center for Environmental Health at...
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Perhaps we'll change if it actually begins to kill us:
"...near-total car dependency is the subject of a growing debate
across the disciplines of public health and urban planning: Is the
American suburb, originally conceived as a relaxing alternative to
the city, now a contributor to medical problems from obesity to
depression and high blood pressure?"
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9. Chicago Sun Times (IL), Sat, Sep 6, 2003
Opinion or Editorial / Newspaper / Daily
... Time for car-intensive urban environments to take a hike September 6, 2003 BY SUE ONTIVEROS SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST ...
States' widening waistlines, the study also points out that all that sprawl is no good for encouraging exercise--a key ingredient to good...
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"...Finally, a study that shows living in the city is good for you...
anyone who chooses to live in the city already knows: People are more
likely to walk to errands, work and pleasure in compact
neighborhoods. Those sprawling suburbs that often don't even have
sidewalks make it hard to walk, so people don't..."
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10. Salt Lake Tribune (UT), Mon, Sep 1, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Not that the research is surprising. It makes sense that suburban sprawl, which creates almost absolute dependence upon automobile transportation, would tend to make Americans fatter. Most suburbanites...
reduce consumption of imported oil by using mass transit, and help to clean up the air. We also can create an environment that is more conducive to exercise by providing bicycle lanes and paths and places to walk and...
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"...The truth will make you free, and the suburbs will make you
fat... increasingly there are negative trade-offs in commute times,
congested roads, cost, bad air quality and poorer health. This does
not mean that Utahns will stop building new neighborhoods on the
fringes of established cities. What it should mean is that they make
an effort to design them with values other than automobile
convenience in mind. Values that will help us live longer and
healthier."
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11. Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star (VA), Sun, Sep 7, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... "What we are trying to get people to understand here is the environment could create better choices for them to achieve a healthier lifestyle, said Richard Killingsworth, director of Active...
sprawled communities with compact, foot-friendly cities. Weight went up as the degree of sprawl rose, the study said. The most sprawling counties had a greater proportion of adults with...
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"...America is not biker- or walker-friendly. "It's 23 times more
dangerous to walk a mile than to ride a mile in a car," said John
Pucher, another researcher and an urban design professor at
Rutgers... Federal statistics show that in 2000, some 4,598
pedestrians and 740 bicyclists died. American pedestrians also are
about three times more likely to get killed than German pedestrians,
and over six times more likely than Dutch pedestrians, even though
Europeans bike and walk more..."
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12. WFIE (IN), Thu, Sep 4, 2003
General Interest / Broadcast / Daily
... "It's the first study to establish a direct link between urban sprawl, obesity and chronic health problems related to obesity and inactivity," says Reid Ewing, lead author of the study and a professor...
"The emerging research in these two journals suggests that the environment plays a crucial role in perpetuating our country's lack of...
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"...So, what does the ideal community look like? Instead of houses
spread like peanut butter across the county, they are concentrated
around a transit-oriented development..."
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13. 2-The Advocate (LA), Sun, Sep 7, 2003
Opinion or Editorial / Newspaper / Daily
... Waists sprawl with suburbia 09/06/03 Waists sprawl with suburbia With just a bit of walking every day, many Americans would be a whole...
lot healthier. But who's walking? Virtually nobody who lives in the typical spread-out suburban sprawl. Every carton of milk requires cranking up the auto, often the SUV. And...
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"...the idea that suburbs push the pudgy to drive instead of walking
is compellingly obvious. There are few sidewalks, and those that
exist terminate at the gate of a typical subdivision..."
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14. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA), Sat, Aug 30, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Health, Science & Environment Food Weather Opinion Health & Science Previous Articles Health Science...
scientific journals today are providing new evidence of how what's called the "built environment" can affect health. In the Pittsburgh study, appearing in the American Journal of Health...
peers who didn't, suggesting that the creation of such environments...
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"...Women who could walk to a biking or walking trail took an average
of 6,797 steps per day, while those who couldn't averaged 4,908
steps. Women who could walk to a department, discount or hardware
store took 6,808 steps daily and those who couldn't took 5,015 steps.
And women who could walk to a park averaged 6,075 daily steps while
those who couldn't averaged 4,802 steps..."
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15. San Antonio Express-News (TX), Sat, Aug 30, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... pedestrians, he said. "The added weight of people living in sprawl may be a result of the lower level of physical activity they get as part of their daily lives...
could be significant, said Dr. Richard Jackson, director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
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"...The researchers found sprawl had little effect on weight in Bexar
County, although surrounding suburban Comal and Guadalupe counties
suffered more from sprawl and its effects. In March, the CDC reported
the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Bexar
and surrounding counties, had the highest percentage of obese adults
in the nation at 31.1 percent..."
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16. Sun-Sentinel (FL), Sat, Aug 30, 2003
National News / Newspaper / Daily
... The study was sponsored by Smart Growth America, a coalition of about 100 environmental, public policy and land conservation groups, and the Surface Transportation Policy Project, an environmental advocacy group. The study's authors said it is first to show a clear association...
The researchers measured the degree of sprawl by reviewing U.S. Census...
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"...The study calculations showed that an average resident of Nassau
County is likely to weigh about 11/4 pounds more than an average
resident of Miami-Dade -- the state's most compact county, whose
residents are in the best shape..."
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17. Sacramento Bee (CA), Sat, Aug 30, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... "This is the first (national study) to establish a link between urban sprawl, obesity and health problems linked to obesity," Ewing said. "If our results are validated ... discouraging urban sprawl will become another strategy to fight the obesity epidemic." Ewing, a research professor at the University of Maryland's National...
University of Michigan....
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"...The situation in South Natomas provides just one example of how
many modern suburbs are hostile to pedestrians... as the suburban
landscape has spread, the percentage of people walking to schools,
stores and jobs has dramatically declined..."
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18. Star Tribune (MN), Sat, Aug 30, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Mary Lynn Smith and Lucy Her, Star Tribune Published August 29, 2003 FAT29 Urban sprawl seems to be adding to waistline spread. A new study released in national medical journals Thursday found that...
study, led by Reid Ewing, a Rutgers University urban planning researcher. The study used complicated mathematical formulas to correlate sprawl in 448 of the nation's counties with health data collected in a...
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"...A similar pattern held true in the Twin Cities area. For example,
Ramsey County -- containing St. Paul and fully developed suburbs --
recorded the least sprawl and lowest predicted weights for its
residents, while Chisago County -- at the far northern edge of the
metro area -- topped the metro area in sprawl and weight..."
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19. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (IN), Sat, Aug 30, 2003
Local News / Newspaper / Daily
... Local Posted on Fri, Aug. 29, 2003 Study links city sprawl to sprawling backsides By Sylvia A. Smith Washington editor WASHINGTON - If you live in a sprawling area where there's no such...
thing as a stroll to the corner drugstore, you're more likely to see sprawl in other areas. Look at the behinds of you and your neighbors....
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"If you live in a sprawling area where there's no such thing as a
stroll to the corner drugstore, you're more likely to see sprawl in
other areas. Look at the behinds of you and your neighbors...
Residents of Allen County, considered a medium-sprawl area, are
fatter and are more likely to have high blood pressure than people
who live in Indianapolis, which mixes homes and businesses more than
Fort Wayne. But Allen County residents weigh less and are less likely
to have high blood pressure than people in high-sprawl areas..."
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20. Canada.com Vancouver, Sun, Sep 7, 2003
Local News / Internet / Daily
... quickly before its remaining land that can be developed is lost to urban sprawl, according to a University of B.C. landscape design expert. The situation is urgent because metropolitan Vancouver's population is...
said Patrick Condon, who heads UBC's James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments. Regional government officials are already sold on shifting to green...
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..and it's true in Canada, too: "...The subdivisions tend to be so
spread out they are difficult to serve with public transit. Nothing
is within walking distance, so suburbanites drive everywhere,
creating traffic congestion, air pollution and health problems..."
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21. Baltimore Sun (MD), Wed, Sep 3, 2003
Opinion or Editorial / Newspaper / Daily
... occur if such items make their way into the learning environment. Ms. Reimer also needs to know that the vast majority of students...
Violating the intent of Clean Air Act Under President Bush's leadership, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided it no longer has the power to regulate a chief source of...
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A great question... "...This would be an interesting study: For every
billion in taxpayer money spent to subsidize highway expansion, what
is the resulting increase in the nation's health care costs?"
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22. Directions Magazine, Fri, Sep 5, 2003
General Interest / Magazine / Daily
... 80% of the worlds population will live in cities. Most major metropolitan areas face the growing problems of urban sprawl; residential and commercial development is replacing undeveloped land at an unprecedented rate. Sprawl results in a loss of natural vegetation and open spaces and a general decline in the spatial extent...
and connectivity of wetlands, wildlife habitat, and agricultural...
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A few technical topics...
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23. New York Times (NY), Wed, Sep 3, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Environmental Protection Agency... E.P.A. Relaxes Restrictions on Sales of Contaminated Land By JENNIFER 8. LEE... Lisa Harrison, an agency spokeswoman, said: "Right now, PCB sites may be sitting unused and undeveloped because this prohibition on the sale or transfer of PCB's was a disincentive to property transfers."...
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24. Ascribe Newswire, Wed, Sep 3, 2003
Education / Internet / Daily
... Tue Sep 2 07:31:50 2003 Pacific Time Book Offers Policy Choices to Curb Urban Sprawl AMES, Iowa, Sept. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- When it comes to preserving small towns and containing urban sprawl, policy planners can learn from Florida's experience, says an Iowa State University...
Mattson's new book, "Small Towns, Sprawl and the Politics of...
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25. News and Observer (NC), Mon, Sep 1, 2003
News / Internet / Daily
... estimated yearly market approaches $1 trillion, because this is the automobile market and it's worldwide. This will change land use. When the automobile came in, people moved out of the cities, out of the 18th century seaports and 19th century...
These machines and the tele-everything IT revolution will perhaps change land use yet again and tend to depopulate the current built-up...
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26. Sun Herald (MS), Sun, Aug 31, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Bentonville, Ark.-based discount chain to limit the damage the stores do to communities and the environment. "As the leader of the retail world, if Wal-Mart would be more responsible when it comes to the environment, other retailers would follow them," said Constance Beaumont, author of the books "How...
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Wal-Mart is at the center of controversy from Mississippi to
Minnesota...
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27. Sun Herald (MS), Sun, Aug 31, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... "Many of the growth problems facing Harrison County are in part a result of unchecked urban sprawl over the last 40 years," states Harrison County's Smart Growth Development Plan, which is being...
There the council can wrangle with ideas of "best use" for themselves. Whatever occurs, experts in real estate development and urban environmental management agree: Good planning would determine the overall success of the project....
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28. Brainerd Daily Dispatch (MN), Fri, Sep 5, 2003
Opinion or Editorial / Newspaper / Daily
... Dispatch weighed in on the issue and supported an EIS." The fact of the matter is that when an Environmental Assessment Worksheet was produced that did not provide opponents with any smoking...
and the fact remains that Wal-Mart has thus far met all the guidelines and regulations. This is, and always has been, a land use decision. Unfortunately some would rather focus on the user and throw all legal,...
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29. Brainerd Daily Dispatch (MN), Sun, Sep 7, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... are giving to local charities and volunteering, not the out-of-state corporation. Wrong place, wrong size The guest editorial about "Land Use, not the Land User," Sept. 4, is quite relevant for the Baxter issue for a superstore with a gas...
station in a wetland. Proper land use and stewardship for immediate and future generations cannot tolerate a 34-acre development with 27...
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30. Brainerd Daily Dispatch (MN), Fri, Sep 5, 2003
Opinion or Editorial / Newspaper / Daily
... Wal-Mart The Baxter City Council has decided not require an environmental impact statement for the 34-acre parcel that's slated as the location...
(mostly Wal-Mart), I would like to state some good comments. Focus on land use not the land user I found it ironic that this week's guest column from the Brainerd...
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31. St. Petersburg Times (FL), Mon, Sep 1, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... As it stands, Realticorp's proposed development could not pass the land development code unless the city obtained a land use change, Maidhoff said. The Wal-Mart Supercenter stretches into a low-density...
said. That could bring a lawsuit onto the city by environmental groups or other interested parties. "If the city issues the development order, it is the city of Crystal...
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32. E / The Environmental Magazine, Wed, Sep 3, 2003
Science or Technology / Magazine / Daily
... advocates say the real problem is not feline but human: urban sprawl, pollution, habitat degradation and over-hunting. "Feral cats are an easy scapegoat," says Donna Wilcox, executive director of Alley Cat...
stray or feral. All those cats have a devastating effect on wildlife, especially species already imperiled by habitat loss and other, more direct human causes. Though no conclusive numbers have yet been...
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Among the incremental effects of poor land use and sprawl: loss of
native wildlife, costs of managing invasive species, and the
irreversible failure of natural checks and balances....
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33. Mail Tribune (OR), Sat, Aug 30, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... If you want to know if a bird visits Oregon, and when, or breeds here, or what kind of habitat it needs, or what it eats, when it migrates, whether its numbers are increasing or decreasing, what threats it...
"It shows declines in far more species than increases," Marshall says. "We have a reaction to habitat changes of all kinds." Bird populations decline for many reasons, Marshall says, including...
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34. Providence Journal (RI), Wed, Sep 3, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... just think that Rhode Island has this huge, wonderful setup," she says. The state Department of Environmental Management is not charged with handling wildlife calls unless the animals pose an immediate danger or...
As humans continue filling wetlands and bulldozing and paving other natural habitats, more and more wild creatures are being displaced. As Bird puts it: "People call and say, 'I've got a fox in my yard.'...
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35. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA), Sun, Sep 7, 2003
Health / Newspaper / Daily
... Wildlife firms taking steps to halt population explosion in geese here...
resident type earns its name by settling in the same environment...
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36. Tucson Citizen (AZ), Fri, Sep 5, 2003
Local News / Newspaper / Daily
... along their routes where ruptures could inflict serious damage to health, safety and the environment. The office can require operators to inspect and test lines more...
"Had we known of the potential for an incident, we would have taken a much different approach to adjacent land use." County Supervisor Richard Elias, whose district includes the South and...
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Moving to the states, Arizona sets a high standard -- for something:
"...Just a few feet underground, this high-pressure gasoline pipeline
carries 2.27 million gallons of fuel a day through Tucson to Phoenix.
Few thought about safety implications until it ruptured July 30,
spewing nearly 13,000 gallons of premium unleaded into a wash and
onto five houses in a subdivision under construction..."
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37. Chino Valley Review (AZ), Thu, Sep 4, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... SRT teams returned from the incident scene, they brought more black guns than Id ever seen in a civilian environment. Everybody was carrying at least two, a handgun and something else, depending on...
unprofitable concepts such as a respect for neighbors who dont want urban sprawl. Government is about profit and politics, not about what...
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38. Arizona Republic (AZCentral) (AZ), Sat, Aug 30, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... Family legacy lives on: Scotts granted land use advertisement Christina Leonard The Arizona Republic Aug. 29, 2003 12:00 AM...
rezoned about eight acres of the Scott's farm to allow single-family homes and agriculture. "These were just people who wanted to be able to use their property...
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"...They were able to build two homes on the land before Williams Air
Force Base set a flight plan moratorium restricting construction in
1978..."
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39. Inland Valley (CA), Thu, Sep 4, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Conservation plan aims to protect wildlife habitats, sanctuaries By BY SARA A. CARTER, STAFF WRITER NORCO - A new conservation plan may lead the city into a lawsuit now...
that council members have sided with the Riverside County Board of Supervisors in adopting a resolution aimed at protecting wildlife habitats and sanctuaries in the area. A lawsuit against the Riverside County Board of Supervisors has...
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40. Tahoe Daily Tribune (CA), Wed, Sep 3, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... September 2, 2003 Environmentally sensitive areas find ways to cope By Susan Wood and William Ferchland, Tribune staff writers...
Second, it has the ability to set public policy, thereby setting environmental standards others must follow. Third, it took an act of Congress to form....
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"Few agencies in the United States carry the same clout and
responsibility as the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency..."
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41. Tahoe Daily Tribune (CA), Wed, Sep 3, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... If the bistate Compact were dissolved, the job of regulating land use and building at the Lake Tahoe Basin would fall to the government of...
the five counties and one city in the basin. This is the scenario that many advocates of the environment say failed to protect the basin's natural environment during the building boom of the 1960s and led to...
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42. Tahoe Daily Tribune (CA), Wed, Sep 3, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Views of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's performance on regulating land use have become as diverse as the character of the...
But most agreed that, while it's a hard job, there's room for improvement on finding that balance between protecting the environment and keeping up with progress. Environmental groups say the agency has failed to do enough to protect...
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43. Desert Sun (CA), Sat, Sep 6, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... He cited opposition from environmentalists and an unaccommodating proposed county land use plan. Oliphants departure left the owners with a choice of continuing to...
pursue development or striking a deal with the environmental groups. "Life is too short sometimes to go through with the agony of this...
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44. San Jose Mercury News (CA), Sat, Sep 6, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... officials from Santa Clara and Alameda counties. If approved as expected, the proposal would be included in the environmental report being drafted. It will then be sent to federal transit authorities....
Highway 101. When Stu Cohen, executive director of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition in Oakland, learned of the plan, he was ``outraged'' that...
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45. Denver Post (CO), Mon, Sep 1, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... employees, a former wildlife commissioner and activists from a number of outdoor and environmental groups, the manifesto sounds an alarm over a variety of subjects. Among them:...
limits DOW ability to be a nonpartisan advocate for wildlife populations and habitat in a wide variety of issues such as public and...
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"...We want to be confident that our chosen stewards are in fact
using our monies to do the best possible job to protect and improve
our wildlife heritage in the face of Colorado's record population
growth..."
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46. Denver Post (CO), Mon, Sep 1, 2003
Opinion or Editorial / Newspaper / Daily
... analysis, 600 public meetings, and 1.6 million public comments did not constitute adequate public involvement. Then, the Department of Agriculture proposed to eliminate Alaska's Tongass, North America's largest intact temperate rain forest, from...
engrained in each of us and is influenced equally by the settlement patterns of 150 years ago and the urban sprawl of the past few decades. Roadless areas are the best of what remains from the 1.8 billion acres...
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47. Glenwood Independent (CO), Thu, Sep 4, 2003
Opinion or Editorial / Newspaper / Daily
... attack. With all the drill pads and access roads, it looks like urban sprawl with only the foundations completed. There is no question that our country has a serious energy shortage....
to, including national parks and national monuments, and areas of special environmental significance which could qualify them for wilderness designation. A prime example of the latter in our area is...
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48. News Journal (DE), Sun, Aug 31, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... owns more than three dozen Burger King restaurants. Vince Kowal, spokesman for the New Castle County Land Use Department, said other companies, such as Bank One Corp., are expanding without...
growth. The goal was to restrict expansion and make developers consider the environment, roads, sewers and community impact before going forward. "We're very comfortable with the UDC and what it provides," Kowal...
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"...Vince Kowal, spokesman for the New Castle County Land Use
Department said... 'Mr. Hill should do his homework, look at the
standards that are presented, and come in with a plan that meets
those standards'..."
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49. Orlando Sentinel (FL), Wed, Sep 3, 2003
Opinion or Editorial / Newspaper / Daily
... Although a negotiated settlement would have been preferable, Gov. Jeb Bush and his environmental chief, David Struhs, really had little choice but to let the courts decide this contentious issue. Georgia's...
insistence on laying first claim to regional water resources would have parched Apalachicola Bay, an environmentally rich estuary from which about 13 percent of the nation's oysters are culled....
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50. News-Press (FL), Sun, Aug 31, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Projects surround preserve Wetland caught in case of development vs. environment By WENDY FULLERTON, wfullerton@news-press.com Published by news-press.com on August 30, 2003...
1,500 feet wide, is a living classroom about Southwest Floridas environment. It captures rain runoff from a 57-square-mile area, including the...
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"...its in the midst of a development boom that some fear is sucking
the life out of Lee County's first preserve. At least three new
projects that could add nearly 3,000 homes are planned for the last
parcels of vacant land circling the slough..."
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51. Fort Pierce News (FL), Fri, Sep 5, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... will be to make sure future projects do not create urban sprawl, he said. Trias said several large-scale projects have been proposed -- in...
Each section of the home -- called a "unit" -- is built in a controlled environment, which allows for more precise construction, said Frank Marro, regional manager for Nationwide Custom Homes, which...
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52. Ocala Star Banner (FL), Sun, Aug 31, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Perry, executive director of the Marion County Builders Association. "They hate us and say we're the cause of sprawl, of course that is after they've moved into their new home in Marion County. Actually,...
those that subtract. In a study done for Lake County, agricultural land pays its way, commercial and industrial holds its own, while...
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There's a reason they hate you, Bubba: "...Drainers and gainers
refer to revenue producers - those that add and those that subtract.
In a study done for Lake County, agricultural land pays its way,
commercial and industrial holds its own, while residential land is a
net loss..."
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53. Jacksonville Online (FL), Tue, Sep 2, 2003
News / Internet / Daily
... Twenty thousand acres of trees, shrubs and waist-high grass and weeds sprawl alongside the recently extended road. Blanding Boulevard near the Kingsley Avenue intersection -- what...
because it does promote less reliance on the automobile," Clem said. "That means less dependence on motor fuel, a healthier environment." The largest Nocatee would be the largest master-planned community in Northeast...
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54. St. Petersburg Times (FL), Wed, Sep 3, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Currently county and city elected officials approve those changes. Ross Burnaman, an environmental and land use lawyer in Tallahassee, is one of a group of people pushing the amendment called the Florida...
Chapel can retain some of its small town feel "instead of becoming another victim of urban sprawl." "Pasco County is trying to manage this. But they look at the whole...
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55. South Marion Citizen (FL), Sun, Aug 31, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... The petition was the brainchild of Ross Burnaman, a Tallahassee lawyer, who with Lesley Blackner, a New Smyrna Beach environmental lawyer, launched the grass-roots proposal called Florida's Hometown Democracy Amendment....
their counties and state. Currently, amendments to the county's comprehensive land use plan and proposed plan amendments are decided by city or county commissions....
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56. Naples Daily News (FL), Sat, Sep 6, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... angle to protect or use the specially zoned area. Commissioners created the land use category 14 years ago, most of it in southeast...
Lee County, as part of a deal with the state, which was looking to curb the urban sprawl that has typified Southwest Florida growth. Until a few years ago the only uses permitted in the area were mining,...
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57. Honolulu Advertiser (HI), Sun, Sep 7, 2003
Local News / Newspaper / Daily
... Members of the Transportation Committee met yesterday to discuss the project's final environmental impact statement, which is open for comment until Monday. But it was an informational session with no...
outlying areas. About $20 million of federal money also is available. The Federal Transportation Administration's decision on the environmental impact statement will not affect whether the project moves forward on schedule, said Cheryl Soon, director of the city...
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58. Des Moines Register (IA), Sat, Aug 30, 2003
Front Page / Internet / Daily
... owners. That's why counties should be able to zone for agriculture just like other industries. That's why property used for livestock confinements...
should be taxed on the same basis as other industrial property. Iowa law has long favored agriculture. Farms are exempt from county zoning, and farmland is given special property-tax treatment....
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59. Des Moines Register (IA), Sat, Aug 30, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Farmers ask for building ban to slow urban sprawl By JULI PROBASCO-SOWERS Register Staff Writer 08/29/2003 Farmers near a new rural housing development in Dallas County want...
Enterprises about four miles west of Granger - the farmers' goal is to slow the fast-paced urban sprawl. "Our concerns are that too many people will move out here and will...
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60. Des Moines Register (IA), Fri, Sep 5, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Local GovernmentMoratorium on rural subdivisions in Dallas County aimed at sprawl By JULI PROBASCO-SOWERS Register Staff Writer 09/04/2003 Granger-area farmer Sam Spellman hopes a six-month moratorium on rural...
Six months will give county officials time to determine how to change the ordinances to protect prime farmland and environmentally sensitive areas, officials said. "Yes, I'm pleased, but I'm not clicking my heels yet," Spellman said....
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61. Courier (LA), Sat, Sep 6, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... money to compile the master plan, a blueprint for future land use and development in the parish. He described himself as a "projects man" who got major work like the...
According to the parishs master plan, more than 90 percent of Terrebonne is classified as environmentally sensitive, areas that cannot be developed. About 8 percent of the parish that is suitable...
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62. Baltimore Sun (MD), Thu, Sep 4, 2003
Business / Newspaper / Daily
... Group favors higher fees in open sections Proposal would help reduce sprawl, direct growth, MaryPIRG says; Officials intrigued with idea; Developers criticize suggested approach...
Originally published September 4, 2003 A new report from an environmental lobbying organization recommends that Carroll County increase impact fees on developments that add to...
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63. Detroit Free Press (MI), Wed, Sep 3, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... BRIAN DICKERSON: Study says schools add to sprawl cycle September 3, 2003 BY BRIAN DICKERSON FREE PRESS COLUMNIST...
Or maybe just beyond your neighborhood, if the authors of a critical look at new school construction in Michigan are right. A forthcoming study conducted under the unlikely joint sponsorship of...
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"The study says the trend -- in which school districts are building
new "Taj Mahal facilities" to lure students and the state aid that
comes with them from adjacent districts -- is a leading contributor
to the suburban sprawl the Granholm administration wants to rein
in...."
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64. Livingston County Press and Argus (MI), Mon, Sep 1, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Impact fees will threaten prosperity Gov. Granholm's Michigan Land Use Leadership Council has spent the last six months examining every aspect of growth and development in...
and a lot of other folks will be watching our Leg... Full Story Sale, donation of rights curbs sprawl Livingston County is losing its farmland and open spaces rapidly...
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65. Detroit Free Press (MI), Fri, Sep 5, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... significant natural resource protections aren't enacted during the next several years, key environmental leaders said Thursday. The villain, they say, is former Gov. John Engler, who was blamed by...
He was the target of derision during an unprecedented gathering of Michigan conservation and environmental groups in 2000 and 2001. On Thursday, at the third such gathering -- Conservation Summit 2003...
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66. Livingston County Press and Argus (MI), Mon, Sep 1, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Contact Us Livingston County Guide Sale, donation of rights curbs sprawl Livingston County is losing its farmland and open spaces rapidly...
to be made to preserve the open spaces or those values will ultimately disappear and Livingston County will blend in to the sprawl of its urban neighbors. One of the most promising ways to ensure long-term preservation of...
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67. Michigan Daily (MI), Sat, Sep 6, 2003
College or University / Newspaper / Daily
... purchase the remaining land and prohibit its development. Besides preventing sprawl, the greenbelt land will provide the city with increased profits from the millage tax. According to The Ann...
purchase has the potential to relax property taxes on Ann Arbor citizens. The purpose of the greenbelt is to prevent sprawl, an ever-growing problem in Ann Arbor and the rest of the state as well; however, the...
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"...It is vital to the preservation of the environment and prevention
of sprawl that the greenbelt proposal pass..."
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68. Lansing State Journal (MI), Sat, Sep 6, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... available. A growing percentage of new houses in the tri-county area are built on agricultural land. Advertisement Growth project time line 1997: First-ever forum held on tri-county land-use issues;...
region's smart growth principles into their new master plans, Coleman said. Bill Rustem, consultant to the bipartisan Michigan Land Use Leadership Council, said the tri-county project is important....
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69. Star Tribune (MN), Tue, Sep 2, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... going to continue to put the people out there that we are. It also hurts our environment a lot to have traffic stopped at lights instead of moving on through."...
center at one of the new interchanges. The new highway will enhance the value of the property, she said. Traffic, sprawl issues For Ploen, president of the Chaska manufacturing firm Quali Tech that...
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70. Billings Gazette (MT), Sat, Sep 6, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... protection. The United Way's Annual Community Indicators Report says that some 24,000 acres of agricultural land has been taken out of production and much of it annexed to the city between 1990 and 1997....
high school. Our community needs to establish and maintain an annexation policy which discourages this urban sprawl. 5. If this means reducing regular reserve amounts from some part of...
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71. Grand Island Independent (NE), Sat, Sep 6, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... highway projects, there is talk of reducing the requirements on the environmental review process of new roads. Limiting opportunities for public input, reducing the frequency and scope of air quality...
We will pay the price in the end with dirty air and water, more traffic, more sprawl, ravaged landscapes and a loss of our historic and natural heritage. If this destructive path is taken, it will show...
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72. Record-Courier (NV), Sat, Sep 6, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Haws said by using the TDR program, the project also preserves between 300 to 700 acres of prime agricultural land in Carson Valley. The project includes 414 TDRs. Mimi Moss of the Community Development Department, said 129 letters in...
Chairman Kelly Kite cut her off as she requested that environmental and archeological studies be completed prior to project approval....
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73. MSNBC / Union Leader (NH), Sun, Aug 31, 2003
Local News / Broadcast / Daily
... of academia's ivory tower and bring their knowledge to bear on the way New Hampshire copes with population growth and development sprawl. The concept, which took about five years to germinate, was...
deal with growth and its affects on community life and the environment. Amy Seif, the center's director, said about 75 people had...
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74. Foster's Daily Democrat (NH), Tue, Sep 2, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... We are what we conserve We read a lot about abuse of the environment. It is satisfying and gives us hope when we read of people who want to use the environment in a positive manner -- a use of benefit to all of us....
instead of one about sprawl and congestion," Curren said. "The reality...
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"...The plan offers something not otherwise offered in New Hampshire
-- a path with an east-west footprint; a trail from Wolfeboro on Lake
Winnipesaukee to Mt. Kearsarge in the Sunapee Region. It is a path
from which to explore some of New Hampshire's most interesting land
south of the White Mountains..."
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75. North Jersey (NJ), Thu, Sep 4, 2003
Opinion or Editorial / Internet / Daily
... By JAMES AHEARN THE REVISIONS in affordable-housing regulations proposed by a state agency will help limit suburban sprawl. This is good news for the environment, bad news for developers and fair-share housing advocates. Developers have been able to use a court-sanctioned "builder's remedy"...
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76. New York Times (NY), Fri, Sep 5, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... issues they say will rally public opinion to their cause roads and the environment. "This is about the issue of sovereignty and how far it is going to...
Opponents of the expansion say there has been no study of the plan's environmental impact, and they announced today that they had hired a...
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77. Indian Country Today (NY), Sat, Sep 6, 2003
Ethnic or Nationality / Magazine / Weekly
... and territorial management." This statement holds true for a host of other tribal regulatory powers, such as land use, zoning, and environmental protection. Yet the Supreme Court has failed to adopt clear rules regarding the rights of tribes to control activities...
strategy that allows the tribe to plan for the future. Land use and zoning are two good examples of how the scope of tribal powers may...
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78. Fayetteville Observer-Times (NC), Sat, Sep 6, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... The plan, released in April by the Fort Bragg/Pope Air Force Base Regional Land Use Advisory Commission, is intended to direct development within a mile of Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base and Camp...
the year the Endangered Species Act took effect. As the bird's habitat - longleaf pine forests - disappeared throughout the South, the birds...
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"The plan, released in April by the Fort Bragg/Pope Air Force Base
Regional Land Use Advisory Commission, is intended to direct
development within a mile of Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base and Camp
Mackall to protect the installations from encroaching urban
development. Such planning is also intended to keep civilian
neighborhoods from being built too close to major military training
areas, where noise levels are high and accidents are possible..."
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79. Toledo Blade (OH), Fri, Sep 5, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... Among the issues discussed at the planning commission meeting was the plans recommendation that the township implement an agricultural zoning district. The designation would permit farms, orchards, and farm-related uses,...
Lucas County commissioner Harry Barlos said he understood that the concept of restricting uses for agricultural land is to "avoid leap-frog development, but asked if there is any thought given to...
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80. Toledo Blade (OH), Wed, Sep 3, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... State funds available to protect open spaces...
Tracking a mysterious killer 09/01/2003 Toxic form of green algae linked to urban sprawl visit Lake Erie again 08/21/2003 Breathe easy, Toledo: Your air is the states healthiest 08/20/2003...
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"...The regional office of the Natural Resources Assistance Council
is offering $818,492 in state grants for projects that protect open
spaces..."
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81. Post and Courier (SC), Sat, Aug 30, 2003
Front Page / Newspaper / Daily
... of hot-button planning concerns in Charleston, from the costly spread of urban sprawl to the isolation of Rosemont, one of the city's oldest...
industry had all but vanished, partly because of stiff competition, partly because of growing concerns over the environmental mess it had created. Since then, the so-called brownfields stigma of the land had scared...
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82. Beaufort Gazette (SC), Mon, Sep 1, 2003
Local News / Newspaper / Daily
... During this period, other factors had an adverse effect on agriculture in Beaufort County in general. Farms were being bought up by large...
to the demise of the small farm. The global market economy pushed them out, and urban sprawl consumed them. Need help? Need to reach The Gazette? Try our Directory....
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83. Knoxville News-Sentinel (TN), Fri, Sep 5, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... James White Parkway Extension and the Pellissippi Parkway Extension, several themes quickly emerged. Opponents repeatedly raised environmental concerns, using terms like sprawl, air pollution, water quality and noise. But the groups also explained their common frustrations with what they...
He identified three specific areas for improvement that he plans to focus on: communication with the public, environmental compliance and the overall project planning and construction process....
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84. Knoxville News-Sentinel (TN), Wed, Sep 3, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... They agree that reducing the number of miles people drive would help cut harmful emissions. They agree that controlling sprawl should be a top priority. But the talk gets tough when the topic turns to which candidate would...
be the best environmental steward. Rogero questions Haslam's record as the president of Pilot Corp., the...
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85. Seattle Weekly (WA), Thu, Sep 4, 2003
Alternative / Newspaper / Daily
... and the Cascades. The territory is overwhelmingly rural, but the part closest to Seattle is ever-encroaching urban sprawl. For 14 years, the late Kent Pullen represented the district....
FORTUNATO HAS HAD PROBLEMS of his own. Claiming that his new environmental consulting business left him indigent and unable to afford the $1,039 filing fee for the race, Fortunato chose to file...
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86. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI), Mon, Sep 1, 2003
News / Newspaper / Daily
... As he walks across his barnyard to milk the cows, Roger Bentz can't ignore suburbia's appetite for agricultural land. Newly constructed homes crowd three sides of the farm that his ancestors started in...
About half the land in Ozaukee and Washington counties is being used for agricultural purposes. But the number of farms has diminished. Washington County lost about 25% of its agricultural land in the past...
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