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- Source: Fresno Bee
- Date: September 28, 2008
- URL: Read the story
- Bylines:
Brad Branan
- Topics:
Local Government ,
Real Estate
- Data Types:
Local Data
- Description/Excerpt: A 2002 master development plan for Fresno has failed to make good on promises to curb urban sprawl, public records and interviews show.
Experts say sprawl -- poorly planned development scattered far from the city's heart -- could add to some of Fresno's biggest problems by creating more traffic and air pollution, depriving core neighborhoods of development and straining the city's budget for road maintenance.
From January 2003 through June 2008, the council approved about 400 zone changes or general plan amendments and denied just four.
The approvals included more than 300 projects around the city's edges -- in most cases allowing more intense development. The Bee analysis excluded zoning changes requested before 2003.
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