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On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:02:42 GMT, "Alan"
> wrote:

>
> wrote in message
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>>
>> arminius wrote:
>> > Americans have become increasingly alarmed, making urban sprawl one of
>> > the nation's hottest political issues.
>> >

>>
>> I have yet to hear anyone give a definition of what "sprawl" is and
>> what it is not.
>> Or to state what an optimal desired population density per square mile
>> would be.
>>
>> Sprawl, like "sustainability" is just a buzzword used by left-wing nuts
>> to agitate for ever increasing goverment control and reduction of
>> individual freedom in the name of "planning".
>>

>
>Sprawl is like porn, you know it when you see it.


And Playboy is like Hustler, right?

>For me, sprawl becomes obscene when it starts fragmenting wildlife movement,
>and introducing alien species of plants and animals.


This would doom the purse Yorkies of Plam Springs...

>You might call me a "left-wing nut", but if assisting developers through
>subsidies in the way of utilities and free infrastructure isn't a form of
>welfare, I don't know what is.


Gee..it also builds local property tax revenues...

>Name one place where sprawl, and "increasing
>the tax base" has actually brought down taxes and I'll move there.


Name one place where it has not increased services and infrastructure.

>Alan
>Charlotte, NC (a poster child for sprawl)


Sprawl without zoning is like a brat with no beer.