Senate Livable Communities Bill Moves Forward
The Senate Banking Committee has held its first hearing on Chris Dodd's "Livable Communities" bill that would provide grants for metropolitan areas and create an office of sustainability within the executive branch.
Dodd described the bill as combining housing development, public transit, and infrastructure and land-use planning into one comprehensive approach to city development. Currently, many of those decisions are made separately from one another, and Dodd and others said the partitions have led to urban sprawl.
Posted on June 10, 2010.
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