The Connection in California Between Sprawl and Mortgage Foreclosures

Democrats and greenies still have the same old solution to sprawl that doesn't work: Urban Density.

Sure, it'll stall the problem for a little while at the expense of quality of life until the population increases jsut a little more. And let's not for get that every person requires a lot of land for farms, water treatment, power generation, etc whether he lives in a high-rise or a subdivision.

We all need to get it through our heads that a rising population is the source of all of our sprawl and environmental woes.

And msot of that population increase some from out of control legal and most especially illegal immigration and their children born here. I'm all for having some legal immigration, but only a little to fill key jobs that employers would have to prove they could not fill with local talent and then pay the immigrant the same wage they offered the locals.

The other solution is requiring cities to set permanent borders and greenbelts and preserving farmland through zoning. Ideally, as many people as possible should live on farmable 5 to 10 acre lots and telecommute to work. That would preserve the American dream, farmland and the environment.

-An Anti-sprawl Republican

Democrats and greenies still have the same old solution to sprawl that doesn't work: Urban Density while welcoming in floods of illegal immigrants. It's hypocritical and counter-productive to their own causes.

Sure, density will stall the problem for a little while at the expense of quality of life until the population increases just a little more. And let's not forget that every person requires a lot of land for farms, water treatment, power generation, etc whether he lives in a high-rise or a subdivision.

We all need to get it through our heads that a rising population is the source of all of our sprawl and environmental woes.

And most of that population increase comes from out of control legal and most especially illegal immigration and their children born here. I'm all for having some legal immigration, but only a little to fill key jobs that employers would have to prove they could not fill with local talent and then pay the immigrant the same wage they offered the locals.

The other solution is requiring cities to set permanent borders and greenbelts and preserving farmland through zoning. Ideally, as many people as possible should live on farmable 5 to 10 acre lots and telecommute to work. That would preserve the American dream, farmland and the environment.

-An Anti-sprawl Republican

Thanks for the excellent article, separate from the subprime mortgage crisis escalating gas prices are redducing the marketability of homes entailing long commutes. This is ne more reason to make our central cities more desireable and affordable along with many others: avoiding the paving of precious agricultural land, slowing global warming, and the cultual desolation of many suburbs.

This is the same posting as my prior one but with the typos corrected.
Thanks for the excellent article. Separate from the subprime mortgage crisis, escalating gas prices are reducing the marketability of homes entailing long commutes. This is one more reason to make our central cities more desirable and affordable along with many others: avoiding the paving of precious agricultural land, slowing global warming, and the cultual desolation of many suburbs.

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