Despite state-enacted laws within the past three years to control suburban sprawl—almost half of the states have such laws—little has been done. Despite these efforts at the state level, these problems are usually left to local governments. Thus, most of the new laws have done little to contain sprawl.
”Virtually every state in the union except Alaska is doing something about this problem,” says Deron Lovaas, with the Sierra Club’s Challenge to Sprawl campaign. ”Local and state officials are feeling the heat.”
The National Governors’ Association put the issue at the top of its agenda this year. As the group’s current chairman, Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening says the post will give him a national platform to promote growth in urban areas and the use of government money to protect undeveloped land. For further details, see http://community.bricsnet.com/aecinform/v3i9s6.phtml.
Based on a report from Bricsnet’s AEC InFORM
