Connecticut: Health, Smart Growth and Sprawl
6 November 2003 - 6:00am
A Hartford Courant Op-Ed discusses strategies for creating healthy communities.
In a recent Op-Ed, Robert Yaro and John Atkin, from the Regional Planning Association in Connecticut, cite a number of recent reports and statistics on health and sprawl, and call for the state of Connecticut to adopt Smart Growth policies.
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Sprawl's Unhealthy Expansion
Source:
The Hartford Courant, November 2, 2003
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