Slowing Sprawl
20 February 2001 - 7:00am
Mequon, WI, learns the price tag for slowing sprawl as it puts together a task force to protect farmland and open space from development over the next 20 years.
An ambitious, expensive strategy to thwart urban sprawl and preserve open spaces in Mequon - a notion that has been on the table in Ozaukee County's largest city for at least five years - finally hits the front-burner with the release of a task force proposal this week. The advice: Permanently save one-quarter to one-half of Mequon's remaining farmland and open country from residential and commercial development over the next 20 years.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 17, 2001
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