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"Amy Blankenship" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "George Conklin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> > "donquijote1954" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> <please learn to snip>
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> >> Sprawl Costs Us All
> >>
> >> Many people think that sprawl (or scattered growth) is an inevitable
> >> result of an economic system that demands lower costs and efficiency.
> >> But this is a myth: sprawl development costs more than careful
> >> planning and development.
> >>
> >> "Sprawl is cheaper for developers than careful planning because they
> >> can pass much of the cost on to taxpayers. The real cost of sprawl is
> >> dispersed through a range of other costs that we, as citizens and
> >> consumers, have to pay."
> >>
> >> http://www.smartergrowth.net/issues/landuse/sprawl/costofsprawl.htm
> >>
> >
> > Smart Growth is based on a lie, but a useful one to get the taxpayer to
> > pay
> > for a developer's schemes.
>
> All developers try to get other people (especially taxpayers) to pay for
as
> much of what they are building as they can. This is not unique to any one
> school of thought. Smart Growth is just a convenient label, both for
> developers and critics, because it is the only school of thought that has
a
> name.
Label pasting is not progress.
news:[email protected]...
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> "George Conklin" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> >
> > "donquijote1954" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
>
> <please learn to snip>
>
> >> Sprawl Costs Us All
> >>
> >> Many people think that sprawl (or scattered growth) is an inevitable
> >> result of an economic system that demands lower costs and efficiency.
> >> But this is a myth: sprawl development costs more than careful
> >> planning and development.
> >>
> >> "Sprawl is cheaper for developers than careful planning because they
> >> can pass much of the cost on to taxpayers. The real cost of sprawl is
> >> dispersed through a range of other costs that we, as citizens and
> >> consumers, have to pay."
> >>
> >> http://www.smartergrowth.net/issues/landuse/sprawl/costofsprawl.htm
> >>
> >
> > Smart Growth is based on a lie, but a useful one to get the taxpayer to
> > pay
> > for a developer's schemes.
>
> All developers try to get other people (especially taxpayers) to pay for
as
> much of what they are building as they can. This is not unique to any one
> school of thought. Smart Growth is just a convenient label, both for
> developers and critics, because it is the only school of thought that has
a
> name.
Label pasting is not progress.