Palm Beach County is considering requiring developers to link shops with neighboring retailers so customers don't add to traffic problems as they move from one strip mall to the next.
Unless builders of gated communities are also forced to interconnect developments, planners and environmentalists say the county's traffic system is doomed to fail. Most of the subdivisions approved by the county in the past five years have been gated communities that aggravate traffic problems by dumping cars onto main roads, oftern from a single exit.
Thanks to Sheryl Stolzenberg
FULL STORY: Palm Beach County wants strip malls to link up with each others
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