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Schwarzenegger Favors Curbing Sprawl

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Karla Reinhardt
11 November 2003 - 2:00pm

Governor-elect of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger favors restoration of declining urban environments. His website criticizes "fiscally unsustainable sprawl" and promises new incentives revitalization of blighted areas.

Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger could become the newest governor to try to curb suburban sprawl in favor of rebuilding existing cities, experts say, a path certain to rile some California builders and real-estate interests who contributed $2.5 million to his campaign.Schwarzenegger has projected a bent toward "smart growth" that favors transit, rebuilding existing cities and slowing development on vacant farmland.

Full Story: Gov.-elect may try to curb sprawl
Source: Orange County Register, November 10, 2003
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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