Town Not Ready For The Cutting Edge

"Kingston's experience has become another source of frustration for those advocating new approaches to managing development in suburban and rural Massachusetts. In the ''smart growth'' movement, planners seek to stop sprawl on open land by channeling growth into urban centers and villages near transit. ''The growth is going to come, but what we'll get is more subdivisions.'' In addition to Indian Pond Estates, other subdivisions are being upgraded and expanded, and new proposals are in the pipeline, said Bott. Channeling the growth around the train station would have the added benefit of preserving the precious few remaining tracts of undeveloped land, he said, under the proposed system of ''transferable development rights.''

Thanks to Anthony Flint