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Sprawl

Most solutions offered to combat sprawl routinely ignore the fiscal issues. Taxation is often cited by business and homeowners for leaving a city, but policy makers enamored of purely governmental solutions downplay this prime mover. See how taxation can cause - and alleviate - sprawl.

File Stemming Sprawl: The Fiscal Approach, by Dr. Bill Batt
SPRAWL DEVELOPMENT CONFIGURATIONS are not natural. Were it not for incentives to the contrary, people would choose to live and work in close proximity.
File Anti-Sprawl but Pro-Market?
Redefining Progress, based in California looks command-and-control to stem sprawl.
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