Sprawl Still Spreading In Virginia

26 November 2001 - 6:00am

Local efforts to control sprawl around Richmond and other areas in Virginia have failed.

"Thomas Jacobson, Chesterfield's planning director, and John Hodges, Hanover's deputy county administrator, said their counties were working to slow sprawl by directing growth to urbanized areas and away from rural ones.That's when Bawcum noted the disconnect - the words weren't matching the reality, she said, because sprawl was proceeding in the counties."

Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 25, 2001
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.