In November 1998, American voters passed overwhelmingly approximately 200 state and local ballot initiatives designed to contain sprawl.
Citizens are concerned with growth run amok and their communities becoming unrecognizable.
The Sierra Club has made curbing sprawl a national priority campaign. The Sierra Club's Sprawl literature, barely mentions population stabilization as an essential component in the effort to curb sprawl. Members and the public intuitively understand this crucial linkage and it is therefore important that Club materials acknowledge population growth as a contributing cause of sprawl. The Sierra Club shall emphasize both regional and national population stabilization as essential components in all Sierra Club sprawl materials and programs. Woops - the Club deliberately dropped over half of the above petitioners' ballot question from the printed ballots.