Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Would you suggest that the so-called sprawl be bulldozed and made back into farmland and the residents and businesses be forcibly relocated back into the urban core, just so a relative handful of carfree malcontents can listen to the birds chirp and/or take pretty pictures whenever they ride out of said urban core areas?
Reductio ad absurdum. Appeal to irrational fear. Poor logic/reasoning. Forcible relocation is both illegal and immoral. Use economic incentives. The best solution to sprawl is to limit its future growth. This will force developers to infill. The sprawl will not return to wilderness, but (hopefully) become a suburb that is both efficient and pleasant. The wilderness and farmland that already exists will also be preserved.
This seems to be what is happening in Mississauga, Ont., where wolfchild lives. Northern Virginia is another place I have read about and also Orange County, Cal.