“His hopes are bouyed by the soon-to-be-released Northeast Ohio Mayors and Managers Association study that will recommend pathways for the region to boost its economic prospects and deal with the costs of fragmentation. The 23-member group studied the model of regionalism in the Twin Cities, and are expected to recommend a similar strategy of regional land-use and tax sharing in 16-county Northeast Ohio.
The costs of sprawl and redundant infrastructure are too high to ignore, Warren explains, as the region consumed 50% more land in the last decade while population and wealth flattened out…” (go to article)
May 3, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Hi Bradley - Your blog is an example of the emergence of “regional community.” A link to this post will be in the next issue of Regional Community Development News. It will be on-line May8 at http://regional-communities.blogspot.com/ Please visit, check the tools and consider a link. Tom