Combine that with Byzantine taxing and subsidies and we are always playing catch-up to deal with growth. But many average citizens stuck in traffic are waking up to the fact that they can say no to growth. This is how urban sprawl really happens. But surely there was. There were many, in fact.
People like and have huge investments in their low-density, car addicted lifestyles.
But only one had the temerity to stand up and address it publicly. All cities are designed to create urban sprawl. At least someone was willing to tell the truth about it, because he is exactly correct that our current approach to development has been to create urban sprawl. This dynamic is what has pushed the county to the lead the nation in the number of threatened and endangered species. People push out and nature and farmlands lose.