Growth Control Vs. Population Growth

26 November 2000 - 10:00am

California is in the midst of a huge population surge at the same time that growth control is gaining support.

Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters writes: "As long as our population continues to expand, imposing limits on housing construction in one community merely squeezes the toothpaste tube and pushes the people somewhere else. And often the practical effect of growth-control measures is to push development into relatively rural areas, thereby encouraging the suburban sprawl that environmentalists profess to oppose."

Source: The Sacramento Bee, November 24, 2000
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.