One area ripe for action, he said, is changing administrative policies that conflict with the administration's desire to strengthen neighborhoods and promote growth in areas with existing infrastructure. People say market forces cause sprawl, but those policies help make market forces. If we can change those policies, market forces may change some with them also. For example, Young said, the administration in the past year changed the capital funding program for schools. But if it was for an existing school, you couldn't do that.
Many people look at the most modern school as the best school and want to move to where that is.
So if we can renovate and do additions and make those improvements on existing schools, then we have a stronger chance of making it so people want to stay there. But if we can begin to turn the tide with policy changes and legislation that saves us any amount, it's progress.