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Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: American Planning Association
23 July 2003 - 10:00am

Cape Coral, Florida, uses an interactive growth model to plot its future intelligently.

"Many communities across the nation are facing extreme growth, great pressure for services � and a drop in tax dollars. To address these realities, a first-of-its-kind interactive growth model was developed for the city of Cape Coral, Florida, that can be adapted for other government agencies to weigh different growth scenarios and the positive and negative impacts of planning decisions."

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Source: Planning Magazine, July 23, 2003
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