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The Controversial Smart Growth Handbook

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
11 March 2002 - 11:00am

Critics say the $2.5 million "Smart Growth" handbook sponsored by HUD and developed by the APA will weaken property rights and hurt small businesses.

"Supporters say it's a how-to manual for controlling urban sprawl through planned or ''smart growth'' development.Critics say it's a handbook for radically altering land-use plans nationwide, stripping property owners of their rights and devastating small businesses."

Full Story: Guidebook on sprawl fuels debate
Source: The Cincinnati Post, March 8, 2002
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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