Some Who Chased The Sun Now Flee The Sprawl

7 March 2001 - 7:00am

Those who retired under Arizona's sunny skies now find themselves enveloped with sprawl.

"Initial polls showed nearly 70 percent of voters backed the idea of clamping down growth and setting up boundaries.Growth boundaries make sense in old-style, compact cities that are losing population as people move out and overrun small farm towns, he [Grady Gammage, a Phoenix land-use attorney] said. They don't make sense in a spread-out city that is becoming denser. And Arizona has neither small farming towns nor is in danger of running out of farmland. "

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune, March 5, 2001
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.