{"id":2651,"date":"2010-09-01T08:13:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T12:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/sprawl-to-ruin-or-dense-with-green-space-for-quality-of-life.html"},"modified":"2010-09-01T08:13:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T12:13:11","slug":"sprawl-to-ruin-or-dense-with-green-space-for-quality-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/sprawl-to-ruin-or-dense-with-green-space-for-quality-of-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Sprawl to ruin, or dense with green space for quality of life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\nJeffrey H. Dorfman,\nProfessor, Dept. of Agricultural & Applied Economics,\nThe University of Georgia<\/a>:\n
\nLocal governments must ensure balanced growth, as\nsprawling residential growth is a certain ticket to\nfiscal ruin*<\/strong>\n
\n* Or at least big tax increases.\n<\/blockquote>\nSee\n\nThe Economics of Growth, Sprawl and Land Use Decisions<\/a>.\n
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  • \nGreen spaces increase property values of surrounding land\n
  • \nGreen and open spaces can provide environmental amenities for free\n
  • \nIf green spaces contribute to quality of life, you\nattract people and jobs to community\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\nNote and jobs<\/em>, not just people: jobs so the people can work\nand afford the houses they live in.\n

    \nBut this doesn’t mean exurban subdivisions with big yards:\n\n\n

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    • \nDevelopment patterns have an impact on the\ncost of service delivery: sprawl is expensive\nto service.\n
    • \nThe same growth done more densely and\ncontiguously saves both money, farmland,\nand provides environmental amenities.\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n
      \nUsing results compiled by AFT, the national averages are:\n
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      • \nResidential: $0.87\n
      • \nCommercial\/Industrial: $3.45\n
      • \nFarmland\/Forestland\/Open Space: $2.70\n<\/ul>\nThese figures are $dollars of revenue for each $1\nof expenditures.\n<\/blockquote>\nHe goes on to say which sorts of development work (dense and contiguous)\nand which don’t (sprawl doesn’t).\n

        \nAnd remember, nobody wants to live in a strip mall and fewer people\ntoday want to live in cookie-cutter suburbia:\n

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        • \nSociologists are finding that today more and more\nhigh skill workers are choosing where to live first,\nthen finding jobs.\n
        • \nBecause businesses want high skill workers, they\nfollow these workers to places with good quality\nof life.\n
        • \nIf you attract good workers, good jobs follow.\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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