How To Win Land Development Issues

A new book claims to be a 'citizen's guide for handling community problems arising from sprawl' and other development activities.

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February 14, 2003, 10:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

This book, published by the Community & Environmental Defense Services, offers a comprehensive citizen's guide for handling community problems arising from sprawl, highway construction,commercial and residential projects, landfill sitings and otherdevelopmentactivities. Utilizing smart growth principles, the book details how tomobilize public support when aggressive action is needed. The book alsohelps readers identify and solve development impacts related to avarietyof issues, including air quality, environmental justice, open space,schools and biodiversity. Note: This PDF file is a 107-page document and is 396 K.

Thanks to California Policy Forum

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