[CPEO-BIF] Redirecting sprawl in Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Rendell: Sprawl Must Be 'Redirected'

By Bradley Vasoli
Philadelphia Bulletin
February 13, 2008

Philadelphia - Gov. Ed Rendell (D) yesterday addressed the Northeast 
Brownfields Development Forum held by the International Council of 
Shopping Centers on the redevelopment of previously utilized lands.

"You can't curtail sprawl by looking just at the supply side," Mr. 
Rendell told heads of Pennsylvania developers gathered at the 
Philadelphia Marriott. "What you have to do is redirect sprawl."

Instead of paving over vast swaths of undeveloped land, the governor 
said, areas already developed for defunct business projects must be 
sought out. He cited the former site of Fairless Steel Works in Bucks 
County, a "brownfield" area turned into an industrial park with 
assistance from the state.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19290232&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=618959&rfi=6

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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