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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, October 5, 1999
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Sierra Club rates states on urban sprawl
Maryland leads way for safeguarding its undeveloped areas
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Spurred by people fed up with clogged highways and dirty air, many states are coming up with innovative programs to ease urban sprawl, a national environmental group said yesterday. Maryland, Rhode Island, Vermont and Oregon got high marks.
Kansas City, MO., was fifth on the Sierra Club's list of cities most threatened by urban sprawl. Atlanta, St.
Louis, Washington and Cincinnati also made the most threatened cities list.
The study was only the latest in string of recent surveys on the loss of open space in urban areas and was distributed as Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt urged Congress to move more aggressively to allocate $800 million for buying parkland and open spaces.
Congress historically has come up with only about a third of the $900 million that federal law provides. Numerous bills in both the House and Senate would guarantee the full $900 million from revenue collected from offshore oil and gas drilling.
In the Interior Department budget
for the fiscal year that began last Friday, Congress came up with less than $300 million for state and federal land purchases under the conservation program. That's a little more than one-third of the Clinton administration's request.
The Sierra Club report, called "Solving Sprawl," ranked the states in four categories where governments tried to keep residents living closer to their jobs to avoid the pollution and gridlock of suburbs.
Buying land around cities, improving mass transit, limiting development of green spaces and revitalizing urban centers were the subjects graded.
Half of the states have acted to pro
tect farms, and 20 have easement programs to prevent development of agricultural land, the Sierra Club said.
Maryland rated tops for protecting open space, with $140 million earmarked to buy rural land in the next five years. Under programs implemented since 1969, the state already protected 300,000 acres of farmland and other undeveloped areas.
A highway advocacy group denounced the report for encouraging policies that would restrict growth, increase housing prices and result in apartment-style housing. The Road Information Program In Washington wants a blend of more roads, more efficient mass transit and better traffic signals.
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