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The public is leading and politicians are following.

When I started writing this column a few years ago, I was a voice from the past with regard to land-use thinking--a somewhat lonely and isolated advocate of carefully managed growth.

Today, as I look around, I am pleased to say I am one of many voices rising out of the community on issue after issue. My one little column can no longer keep up with, or even allude to, the many expressed public concerns for conservation, open space, watershed preservation and the idea of establishing a carrying capacity for tourism.

Traditionally we think of officeholders as leading public thinking, but that idea is being turned upside down. The public is leading, and politicians are ...

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