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2012 Session Updates and Action

Protect Smart Planning

Smart planning pays.  Planning ensures that our most valuable agriculture lands are not growing stripmalls; that new development is not polluting our waterways or draining aquifers; that our communities are not seeing a continued pattern of disinvestment; and that our transportation dollars are being spent to create the most efficient system that gives people choices in how they get around.  Smart growth pays for citizens and governments. Vibrant town centers and working rural lands provide more in tax revenues than they require in services. Sprawl, however, costs more to taxpayers than it pays back. 

1000 Friends opposes efforts to impose higher tax burdens, destroy rural lands, and pollute our air and water by rolling back basic smart growth and environmental protections.

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