Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Political Environment: Clean Water Action Council Catalogs Sprawl Damage To Wisconsin

Anyone pushing for more freeways, more subdivisions full of single-family homes, more strip shopping centers without including, or even considering, any other options, should read this:

The Political Environment: Clean Water Action Council Catalogs Sprawl Damage To Wisconsin

This jumped out at me:

The costs of providing community services have skyrocketed as homes and businesses spread farther and farther apart, and local governments are forced to provide for widely spaced services. Owners of these dispersed developments seldom pay the full government costs of serving them, forcing the rest of us to subsidize them with higher taxes at the local, state and federal level.

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