[CPEO-BIF] Hartford (CT) editorial - "Let's Redirect sprawl"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Let's Redirect Sprawl

Editorial
Hartford Courant (CT)
February 28, 2008

A policy issue is often helped by being framed in direct language. 
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell contributed to the cause of smart growth 
earlier this month when he told developers (as reported in The 
Philadelphia Bulletin), "What you have to do is redirect sprawl."

...

Connecticut has taken steps toward redirecting sprawl. For example, in 
2006 Gov. M. Jodi Rell created a central agency, the Office of 
Brownfield Remediation, to coordinate the state's various remediation 
programs. But there are still an estimated 1,000 polluted sites to be 
cleaned up.

That should be part of a strong and focused effort to redirect sprawl to 
the empty and underused sites that pockmark nearly all of our urban 
areas. The central part of Hartford, for example, has acres of land that 
is severely underused as surface parking.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-redirectsprawl.artfeb28,0,6211493.story

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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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