His administration will discourage nodes of development at interstate exits. Vermont wants and needs growth, but not economically destructive growth such as sprawl. We must make a clear choice to preserve Vermont's quality of life and sense of community. Act 200 should be revitalized. Planning has been underfunded.
Sprawl is a symptom of cumulative behavior with chronically negative effects.
The objective of the Forum is to engage the public in a collaborative process that identifies the cause and effects of sprawl and develops remedies. The underlying cause of sprawl is difficult to determine. It is the result of thousands of individual decisions made in reaction to powerful marketplace, personal, and political forces. State policies often reward sprawl. By 2000, the outlying communities which surround the 69 'service cores' will have doubled their population since 1960.