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Article: The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa., Margie Peterson column: 'People have to vote with their feet' to curb sprawl.(Column)
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- The Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
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- August 16, 2007
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Byline: Margie Peterson
Aug. 16--I wrote last week about the need to give municipalities better tools for curbing suburban sprawl. What I didn't say was that one of those tools helped cause sprawl.
After World War II, there was a big demand for new homes across America and developers responded by subdividing large tracts of land outside cities and building houses en masse. As city-dwellers migrated to suburbs, many municipalities passed "single use" zoning laws to keep businesses and industry from intruding on the neighborhoods.
"Zoning protected people from the things they were getting away from, like noxious factories," according to Barbara ...
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