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Sprawl
* accelerates the decline of cities and towns.
* affects the environment in other ways as well.
* also harms our native plant species.
* also has a negative impact on the natural environment
  - serious environmental consequences
  - wreaks havoc on an area's water quality
* can and does occur where only one force increases
  - happen in urban, suburban or rural settings
* comes in many forms other than residential development.
* continues to eat up open space and rich farmland worldwide.
* contributes significantly to the pollution of both our air and water.
* creates crowded schools in the suburbs and empty, crumbling schools in center cities
  - more air and water pollution
* degrades air quality through increased driving.
* destroys more than one million acres of parks, farms and open space each year
  - one million acres of farmland every two years
* devours wetlands and flood plains and destroys wildlife habitats.
* eats away at the urban fringes, and devours the rural landscape and open spaces near cities.
* encompasses varied circumstances that have been widely covered in the media.
* focuses solely on suburban expansion.
* has many causes.
* increases costs by making automobile travel a necessity
  - the risk of flooding
  - traffic on our neighborhood streets and highways
  - unemployment and concentrates poverty in urban centers
* inevitably follows the major investment of public spending for new roads.
* involves the movement of populations from city centers to outlying areas.
* is actually a way to keep communities alive.
* is an everyday problem throughout the United States
  - issue that hits people close to home
  - devastating communities in every region of the state
  - growth that happens outside of existing infrastructure
  - like cholesterol
  - more a problem of maintaining communities than it problem of wanton development
* is one of the biggest environmental problems facing most communities in America
  - main causes of traffic congestion
  - reasons there are so many traffic jams
  - particularly damaging because it often eats up land faster than the population grows
  - stories about places that used to be
  - the direct result of accommodating the automobile
* is the result of bad land use and transportation planning
  - over five decades of subsidies paid for by the American taxpayer
  - uncontained bleeding edge of urban development
* is, overall, more than a phenomenon of road and building development.
* isolates people in their own homes in the suburbs.
* leads to urban decline while threatening rural community character.
* limits the feasibility of getting around without a motorized vehicle.
* makes life easier for people tired of high-energy city life
  - public transportation systems less efficient and less available to more people
* means greater reliance on automobiles
  - roads, driveways, parking lots and roofs
  - spacious houses with yards and flexible drives to work
* often means that people have to drive greater distances to do their daily shopping.
* pattern of development.
* pollutes our air and water.
* produces traffic congestion and more air pollution.
* refers to a particular type of suburban peripheral growth.
* reflects social progress more than decline.
* represents the rural acres lost as urban areas spread outward over time.
* serious threat to the environment andthe resources of the entire planet.
* symptom of cumulative behavior with chronically negative effects.
* tends to create problems in our community that take away form our quality of life.
* threatens wildlife by chopping up habitat.