Co-sponsored by the Connecticut Chapter of The American Planning Association and the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities.
Sprawl is everyone's enemy, but few have had any success in attacking it.
But the car is not going away, Americans seem to prefer living on large lots, and most communities have not been able to control growth even if they could afford to do so. Portland's Urban Growth Boundary has for more than 20 years limited growth in Portland to the area inside this boundary, preserving open space outside the boundary, moving people from cars into mass transit, andattempting to keep housing prices down. The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group is a private organization which sponsors mass transit and highway improvement projects, affordable housing construction, and controlled municipal growth in the Silicon Valley. Both efforts have had long, and by most accounts very successful track records. I hope you will join us for what promises to be a stimulating and free-wheeling discussion of sprawl, and of the quality of life in our communities.