The residents, business and civic leaders and community organizations must collectively and individually embrace the concept of what it means and what it takes to be a quality community. Only then will they achieve the success they so richly deserve. General Municipal Law, 247. Chapter 945 of the Laws of 1960, 1. Land acquisition bonding referenda were considered recently in Putnam County and Westchester County.
Sprawl refers to a particular type of suburban peripheral growth.
In terms of land-use type, sprawl includes both residential and nonresidential development. Residential development contains primarily single-family housing, including significant numbers of distant units scattered in outlying areas. Nonresidential development includes shopping centers, strip retail outlets along arterial roads, industrial and office parks, and free-standing industrial and office buildings, as well as schools and other public buildings. The federal section 5311 program provides capital and operating funds for public transportation in small urban and rural areas of the State. There is an IDA for New York City and 67 other cities, towns and villages.