California's Smart Growth Law

"Backers consider the move toward strategic growth investments the biggest leap in a generation for a state government that routinely lets 58 counties and almost 500 cities decide how to accommodate roughly six million new residents a decade. The next five years California intends to spend $56 billion on colleges, highways, hospitals, courts and state buildings. Voters have approved billions more for local schools and housing in bond issues. The new law could push more of it toward existing neighborhoods instead of new ones."