{"id":879,"date":"2008-08-10T11:58:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T18:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/10\/smart-growth-is-neither\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T19:37:20","slug":"smart-growth-is-neither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/smart-growth-is-neither\/","title":{"rendered":"smart growth is neither"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/urban-sprawl-drives-up-the-cost-of-living.pdf\" title=\"Claire Levy - Urban sprawl drives up the cost of living\">Claire Levy &#8211; Urban sprawl drives up the cost of living<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/smart-growth-retarding-the-quality-of-life.pdf\" title=\"Smart Growth: Retarding the Quality of Life\">Smart Growth: Retarding the Quality of Life<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans have moved to the suburbs:<br \/>\nThe air is cleaner, but road expansion has lagged behind population growth:<br \/>\nA strong anti-suburban movement has developed.<br \/>\nThe anti-sprawl movement suggests so-called &#8220;smart growth:&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The anti-sprawl diagnosis is flawed:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Urbanization does not threaten agricultural land:<\/li>\n<li>Most suburban growth is not from the cities:<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Walkable&#8221; cities are an illusion:<\/li>\n<li>Open space is expanding more rapidly than urbanization:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Smart growth would intensify the very problems it is supposed to solve.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smart growth increases traffic intensity:<\/li>\n<li>Smart growth increases air pollution intensity:<\/li>\n<li>Smart growth reduces housing affordability:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From Social Engineering to Freedom:.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sufficient road capacity should be provided to  accommodate growth:<\/li>\n<li>People should be allowed to live and work where and how they like:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/dhi.pdf\" title=\"4th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: 2008\">4th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once again, the Demographia survey leads inevitably to one clear conclusion: the affordability of housing is overwhelmingly a function of just one thing, the extent to which governments place artificial restrictions on the supply of residential land.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"style3 style11\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollisterfreelance.com\/opinion\/182307-the-myth-of-smart-growth\">Myth No. 1: Smart Growth is good.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"style3 style11\">In reality, it&#8217;s not. Portland and San Jose, the two top &#8220;Smart Growth&#8221; cities in the U.S., have more unaffordable housing, higher job losses, higher urban unemployment and greater congestion, with much higher confiscatory tax and fee levels, than before they adopted their &#8220;Smart Growth&#8221; policies. Yet their leaders proclaim &#8220;success&#8221; from their policies. Hypocrisy has become the norm &#8211; lies and deceitfulness their standard operating procedure for government. Only their union employees and congestion management consultants are profiting &#8211; and the bankruptcy attorneys.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claire Levy &#8211; Urban sprawl drives up the cost of living Smart Growth: Retarding the Quality of Life Americans have moved to the suburbs: The air is cleaner, but road expansion has lagged behind population growth: A strong anti-suburban movement has developed. 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