NEWS
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
"... Prop B is a good start, although not enough to reverse the seemingly inexorable sprawling of America, which can be stemmed only with considerably higher land and fuel pricing, as well as new zoning, regional and urban growth and redevelopment policies. It picks relatively low-hanging fruit that will only get harder to reach with time. There will no doubt be unintended consequences , as there always are, but probably not the ones now being trotted out by the opposition, who are in some cases doing their best to obfuscate and confuse the voters. Proposition B is an historic beginning of a new attitude and discipline about how we want to build community for ourselves and the future." ...Writes Douglass Kelbaugh, Dean of the Taubman School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and a noted new urbanist. In his short analysis he debunks six "Fallacies" such as the contention the greenbelt will increase housing costs, taxes will go up, and it will cause leapfrog sprawl.
Posted by Rob at 1:25 AM
