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Sprawl Pushes Homes Into Vulnerable Locations

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Michael Dudley
4 November 2003 - 10:00am

California's fire disaster is a reminder that development in the state is headed in the wrong direction.

"We push the envelope in California, home to 35 million people, most of them in the Southland, which has no water. We build on earthquake faults, floodplains and ocean cliffs. Ocean views are worth millions until homes collapse into the sea... What is California to do? People keep coming (50 million projected for 2020)...too many people crowding into rural eco-systems unable to support them. We have built the wrong way in California, sprawling into the mountains, deserts and coastlines, letting inner-city cores disintegrate..."

Full Story: Sprawl's push ravages the land
Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, November 3, 2003
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