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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Team OP!

However, I would not be opposed to growth if it actually was smart growth. If there was enough green space for all, and by that I mean parks where kids can play, and I don't mean the small pocket parks for adults to hang out in. And if the infrastructure, and by that I'm talking about the traffic and the schools, could keep up with what they're building. It does not.[/quote]

“Smart growth” has become a buzz phrase.  Only a dumb developer would not call his project smart growth.  [/quote]

I agree with this. I understand the need for growth, but "smart growth" policies are all growth with little "smart."

I'm not sure how we change this, [b]the entire idea of smart growth is to create dense, livable communities where everyone lives a walkable distance from where they work, go to school, and play[/b].  Living near your work is virtually impossible for any dual earner household, and school planning has not been coordinated with development so that "smart growth" policies actually increase reliance on automobiles.  The preference for higher density development in walkable communities makes no sense if townhomes and apartments are constructed and filled with residents who have 2-3 cars per household and no ability to walk to any school, shopping center, or place of employment. Very little green space has been preserved in walkable distance to new development.  I'll take the burden of new growth if it comes with some benefit, but that's not what is happening. Current policies promote sprawl; they do not contain it. [/quote]

No, it's not. The entire idea of smart growth is to put growth near things that are already there, instead of far away from things that are already there.[/quote]

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