Dear HCN,
I found it ironic that
three of the four folks opposing sprawl that Tony Davis chose to
highlight in his sidebars in the Desert Sprawl article are, in
fact, “sprawlers’ themselves. Whether they moved to the Catalina
Foothills in 1946, watched the east side of Tucson expand from
their home in the Tucson Mountains or lived on five acres in the
heart of an ironwood forest, they are also contributing to the
fragmentation of the landscape. Sprawl follows these “pioneers’
into the countryside and just because they might have been the
first doesn’t make them any more right.
I
sympathize with Bill Arnold and his frustration with the lack of
support for urban infill. I am reminded of an old Pogo comic strip:
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Bee
Hall
Helena,
Montana
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