[Greenway-board] An article from The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)

[Bill B.]

A plan for saving land
Development is eating up land in fast-growing North Carolina faster than Baptists going through potato salad at a summer dinner on the grounds. Growth in such forms as new residential developments, businesses and new or wider roads consumes 100,000 a 

Hi TGC Team,

Another editorial promoting the $1B Open Space initiative.

Bill B.
Development is eating up land in fast-growing North Carolina faster than Baptists going through potato salad at a summer dinner on the grounds. Growth in such forms as new residential developments, businesses and new or wider roads consumes 100,000 acres of open land a year, estimates a coalition of conservation groups. The coalition has a splendid proposal for North Carolina to float $1 billion in government bonds to save farms, forests and historic places. The group, made up of 57 local and state conservation organizations, calls itself Land For Tomorrow, and it wants voters to be allowed to decide the matter in November 2006.


See the full story at http://newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/story/2492288p-8896565c.html .


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