The consequences of that growth are all around us -? loss of open space, traffic congestion, and never-ending sprawl. Habitat loss due to population growth is the greatest threat to wildlife.
Diana Hull
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This is a victory ... for smart planning. Oahu is hitting some real limits to growth. From traffic gridlock to groundwater resources, the impacts of sprawling growth will impact everyone's quality of life.
Jeff Mikulina
The city and county officials need to come together to make a plan. We don't want to find ourselves in a situation where everyone is approving sprawl across the lake and all the way up to Chapel Hill because we don't have a plan.
Randy Voller
We still object to the whole concept of waving the urban sprawl rule. We believe it serves a purpose.
Janet Bowman
The needs change. Sometimes Scout camps that were once outside of town are swallowed up by sprawl, or they are no longer conveniently located.
Gregg Shields
This not only drives up prices, it forces the demand to spill over and sprawl out to the next best piece of geography up and down the coast and the river.
Bernard Salt
This fee will stifle new construction. Developers are being blamed for sprawl. Local governments develop general plans, and developers, both residential and commercial, build on property based on those plans.
Nathan Magsig
Obesity is a national problem, and poor diet and insufficient exercise are recognized as the primary causes. But observers increasingly have pointed to our culture and our built environment as possible contributing factors -- specifically, the relationship of residential setting and urban sprawl to obesity.
Siim Soot
Companies are getting much more comfortable with running Linux in the data center as they move off of Solaris, HP-UX, or AIX, and they recognize they need the power of virtualization to help them manage increasing sever sprawl.
Mike Grandinetti
Every day all day, every night all night, cars, planes, trucks, trains, motorcycles and even pedestrians flow through that sprawling intersection like blood coursing through the arteries of the heartland, of which Chicago still reigns as the square-shouldered capital.
Andrew H. Malcolm
Some of it has to do with habitat loss, urban sprawl taking away places where people used to hunt. And people just don't have time.
Steve Wagner
We were fleeing the extreme sprawl that had become the suburbs of Detroit.
Will Danforth
We're just getting to the point where we're having fun. Are we going to set carbon targets? Are we - god forbid in Arizona - going to do something about sprawl? We're going to do our best to get language in that will make a difference.
Roger Clark
This [region] was being eaten up by sprawl, not only the land but the cities.
Andres Duany
We have to avoid sprawl for sprawl's sake without attention to the needs of long-term communities.
Amy Campbell
We're entering the age of ocean sprawl.
Tim Dillingham
The dynamics of rainfall and erosion don't change over the years, but we do have urban sprawl. We used to have rivers and now we have housing developments (downstream).
Kekoa Paulsen
Family households often believe they have no choice but to move to the suburbs. They will only be attracted to communities that have food, schools, parks, child care facilities, services and community centers. These are the very households that make up most of the demand for urban sprawl.
Larry Beasley
Sprawl is killing people, some 300,000 premature deaths annually because of the sprawl sedentary lifestyle, and it is killing our natural environment, scenic vistas, biodiversity, rural towns and much more.
Joel Hirschhorn
It has developed in a sprawling fashion. Mass transit is most efficient when people only have to walk a block or two to a bus stop. That's part of smart growth, to develop areas more urbanized in nature and that makes them more efficiently served with transit.
Joann Haley
This is actually a very sprawling, epic movie.
Robert Luketic
In effect, what's being proposed here is controlled growth around the existing areas of density and less growth in the rural and agricultural areas, while allowing for some commercial activity along the main corridors. This is to prevent sprawl, where growth happens wherever. The county actually had some very positive comments about the ordinance. They said it was cutting edge.
Allen Cohen
[By early evening, a sprawling crowd assembled to hear Palau preach before the stage was commandeered by a hip-hop gospel ensemble and a rock group playing Christian music.] We're ecstatic about the turnout, ... This is what a festival is like.
Luis Palau
I don't think Southern, I do think rural. At the end of the day, I think the rural way of life is much more sophisticated and genuine. I don't think the planet was really designed to have big cities sprawl the way they do.
Shannon Mcnally
On one level it is quite an ambitious sprawling narrative.
Rowan Woods
It's a sprawling, epic movie.
Robert Luketic
ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl. When Zeal sought Gratitude for his reward He went away exclaiming: 'O my Lord!' 'What do you want?' the Lord asked, bending down. 'An ointment for my cracked and bleeding crown.' Jum Coople.
Ambrose Bierce
I'm very concerned. If we're interested in recycling urban areas, instead of just promoting sprawl, then we need this tool. There's a lot of misunderstanding about it.
Richard Ward
The project is classic sprawl. They are going to create so much pollution and devastation in the North Livermore Valley that no environmental group is supporting it.
Mike Daley
You're not going to stop urban sprawl by putting 10,000 people in Boise.
John Gannon
Hampton Roads is a sprawling suburb -- 340 square miles in my coverage area in seven cities. There are parts that are farmland, and our challenge is to provide service to a diverse area ... but there are holes.
Michael Townes
So many of our problems are made much worse by this huge flow of illegal immigration. Overcrowded hospitals, underperforming schools, traffic congestion, and never-ending sprawl are all fueled by out-of-control immigration.
Diana Hull
TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE My friend, you are not graceful -- not at all; Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful: your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make.
Ambrose Bierce
Spaniards are known for their diversity and joyful outlook on life, the romantic language, foot-tapping music and acres of sprawling vineyards. They enjoy life in so many different ways ? the running of the bulls (Pamplona) and bullfighting (mostly in southern Spain). This has also a lot to do with the way they express themselves.
Vinolia Lobo
It's the old axiom: location, location, location. Suburban sprawl has now surrounded these communities. Suddenly you have a 10- to 15-acre property in a suburban area, and it becomes an attractive target ... for commercial and residential developers.
Bruce Savage
They survived intact up to the 19th century, but, now, it?s estimated that 80 percent of the once-extant ?mounds? have been destroyed due to farming, looting, highways and sprawl. Made of earth, they were easy to alter or erase.
Mary Reilly
Prospect Park is an extraordinary development and creates a viable asset for the region. In addition to limiting traffic and reducing sprawl, this meticulously crafted development will become a vibrant community that attracts people and stimulates business.
Brandon Beach
In the areas where you have urban sprawl, we are losing large amounts of farmland.
Jeff Squibb
We've got to make sure [the money] fits into a long-term plan for sustainability. We can't finance sprawl.
John Godfrey
It's important that communities maintain their sense of place identity, so that they are not just one more blob of suburban sprawl, that they are something special ... People do like themes.
Grant Thrall
It's better to have tall buildings on a small lot than a sprawling lot spread out along the river. The last thing we need is to build a surface parking lot along the river.
Phil Compton
It was supposed to be Urban Growth Management fees, but all it did was fuel sprawl, ... It didn't control anything because it was uncontrolled at City Hall. It was a mess.
Alan Autry
If you want to impact sprawl, you have to impact families. That's why there's sprawl in the first place. They can't find housing in the city that meets their income level.
Peter Steinbrueck
It's locally led so the national teams are responding to local input. Style does give those things character, but above and beyond, that is creating livable communities. We want to create urban centers that curb urban sprawl.
David Hardy
What they're trying to do is to create the opportunity for them to be able to develop their land without them having to worry about someone challenging the development based upon the sprawl or the population projection rules, and those are two key concepts that the state Department of Community Affairs and counties use to determine whether a development is appropriate.
Eric Draper
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