At a conference on coastal growth sponsored by the Georgia Conservancy and other environmental groups, Edward T.McMahon, director of land use programs for The Conservation Fund called for careful growth control along Georgia's coastline.
"[I]t's important to maintain the integrity of coastal Georgia because it's worth money...If that integrity is lost, McMahon told 200 attendees, the people of Georgia have no one to blame but themselves. He backed-up his message with a series of slides from communities that demanded -- and got -- economically viable, environmentally responsive development. McDonald's restaurants that look like the historic buildings they sit among, big-box retailers with facades like old-fashioned country stores, parking lots that could be mistaken for parks."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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