November 1999 . Number 33 Demographia & The Public Purpose: Pro-Choice with Respect to Urban Development
Some anti-sprawl activists (new urbanists) have labeled those who oppose or have difficulties their policies as
"pro-sprawl." Nothing could be further from the truth for most opponents of the anti-sprawl movement.
The Public Purpose
(Demographia), for example, believes that urban development should be left to market forces. As a result,
The Public Purpose (Demographia), like some in the anti-sprawl movement, favors the deregulation of land use, so that
compatible mixed use of commercial and residential development is permitted. A problem with some anti-sprawl
strategies is that they would impose new, more rigid land use regulation to
correct the distortions created by the present regulations. What is needed is not more
regulation, but more consumer choice.
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