Some Who Chased The Sun Now Flee The Sprawl

Those who retired under Arizona's sunny skies now find themselves enveloped with sprawl.

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March 7, 2001, 7:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Initial polls showed nearly 70 percent of voters backed the idea of clamping down growth and setting up boundaries.Growth boundaries make sense in old-style, compact cities that are losing population as people move out and overrun small farm towns, he [Grady Gammage, a Phoenix land-use attorney] said. They don't make sense in a spread-out city that is becoming denser. And Arizona has neither small farming towns nor is in danger of running out of farmland. "

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Some Arizonans Who Chased the Sun Now Flee the Sprawl, Traffic

Monday, March 5, 2001 in The Salt Lake Tribune

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