Arizona's Cancer: Suburban Sprawl

"The Taylor Lane area is one of Arizona's most problem-plagued "wildcat" subdivisions -- sprawling tracts of land divided by a succession of owners in a way that leaves them exempt from basic county building requirements, such as putting in roads, sewers and sidewalks. States around the country, including North Carolina, Wisconsin and Louisiana, have similar residential outcroppings. But the problem has spread like a cancer through Arizona, largely because of the tremendous demand for land here, and state law that prevents county officials from clamping down on wildcat growth."