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Cape Cod's Drive To Curb Overdevelopment, Chester Smolski Mar 1990

Cape Cod's Drive To Curb Overdevelopment, Chester Smolski

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The mid 1980s in Rhode Island will be long remembered as a time of intensive real estate development, explosive house process and manmade growth sprawling over the countryside. These phenomena also generated a reaction in the form of environmental concerns, the NIMBY syndrome, affordable housing issues and the passage of the 1988 Comprehensive Planning and Land Use Regulation Act.

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