Such planning approaches must also consider other relationships between built environment and health, such as the relationship between increased sprawl and ozone concentrations (Stone 2008) and between increased neighborhood walkability (via higher density, street connectivity, and mixed-use design) and elevated concentrations of traffic-related pollutants (Marshall et al. 2009).
"It will increase sprawl in towns already overburdened with overdevelopment".
In addition, four-acre zoning could increase sprawl because residential lots would become more geographically spread out.
Tanya Sherman, a trustee of South Nyack and an outspoken critic of a new bridge, says making commuting easier will only increase sprawl, pollution and congestion.
Or, imagine being able to sleep while commuting to work; might this encourage increased sprawl as people choose to live farther and farther from work?
When ignoring the usable life of improvements the construction of roads is less costly than building light rail or subways, excluding land costs, but may contribute to increased sprawl.
In the case of Santiago de Chile, a highly income-segregated metropolis that also suffers an increasing urban sprawl, its underground (Metro and BRTT corridor networks offer a unique chance to revert these malaises.
Because of increasing urban sprawl with continuing movement of populations from urban centers to previously rural areas that lack public water supplies (Frumkin et al. 2004), a growing number of private wells are being drilled in the United States.
Opponents say the changes will weaken environmental protections and increase sprawl.
But the primary goal of the post was recruitment, as evidenced in the title: "The SF chapter of the Sierra Club helps pass anti-housing laws that increase sprawl, carbon emissions, and the destruction of the wilderness.
