You May Be Against Sprawl, But Others Love It
6 July 2001 - 9:00am
Many write that sprawl is a bad thing, but Carol Ann Lease of the Dispatch thinks we should embace it as long as we can.
In response to an USA Today article on sprawl, Columbus Dispatch columnist Carol Ann Lease writes that "what is not urban sprawl, the newspaper said, is lots of people stacked on top of one another, such as in apartments and condominiums. What is urban sprawl, according to the newspaper, is what I and many of my neighbors consider a bucolic, peaceful lifestyle -- one house on 5 acres."
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The Columbus Dispatch, July 5, 2001
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