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Article: Megalopolis: Urban sprawl slowly blurs Wasatch Front towns, cities
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2008
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It wasn't so long ago that Donald Frame used to ride a horse to
get around his remote neighborhood in Taylorsville.
Leonard McKay lived in a tiny, distant Provo, and Michelle
Knight's home in Clinton was surrounded by farmland, not strip malls
and subdivisions.
But over the past few decades, Frame, McKay and Knight have been
pulled ever closer -- without moving an inch -- into a booming
metropolis or megalopolis, that spans the Wasatch Front. As their
counties and communities collide, tiny towns are becoming more of a
distant memory where new needs for establishing an identity,
transportation routes and areas for growth have become paramount for
survival.
"This is a whole different world ...