Sprawl threatens states' economic growth, the report says, as traffic congestion and rising taxes chase businesses and workers elsewhere. When a referendum was held here last fall on a proposed bridge and highway extension across wetlands and the Missouri River, the usual suspects showed up to argue both sides of the issue. Developers and city officials held that the extension would ease traffic congestion and open up a new region for residential growth. It keeps taking the boundary farther and farther out and furthering racial polarization in the city. We should be looking inward and redeveloping the inner city.
Concerns are health issues like clean air and water.
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