The Many Meanings of Sprawl
7 October 2003 - 10:00am
Florida's growth management law seeks to limit sprawl but no one can agree what sprawl means.
"...sprawl is hard to define. If Florida's growth management law has one overriding purpose, it is to limit sprawl, said several professional planners. But almost everyone involved with growth decisions - elected officials, planners and developers - complain they are frustrated by vague and conflicting definitions of the term."
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Scrambling to define sprawl
Source:
The St. Petersburg Times, October 6, 2003
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