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The Costs Of Sprawl: Environmental And Economic Costs Of Alternative Residential Development Patterns At The Urban Fringe , Real Estate Research Corporation
The Costs Of Sprawl: Environmental And Economic Costs Of Alternative Residential Development Patterns At The Urban Fringe , Real Estate Research Corporation
Portland Regional Planning History
Local government officials devote a large proportion of their time to considering and acting upon development proposals which substantially affect their communities in many ways. While information bearing on development proposals has been increasingly broader in scope, more specific, and of higher quality, local government officials continue to have considerable difficulty in assessing the relative merits of alternative types of housing, general development patterns, and commercial strip versus center developments. To help compensate for this knowledge deficiency, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), in cooperation with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), …