Flying around recently, a fellow traveller seated next to me mentioned that he had been in Madison quite often over the past five years and was amazed at the ongoing sprawl. I recalled this conversation while reading Mike Ivey’s recent column: “One Sprawl Project Begets Another“. I was further reminded of this discussion when I read Spencer Hsu and Dana Hedgpeth’s article on the tens of millions of dollars Washington, DC stands to gain from a proposed land transfer from the federal government to the City.
The intersection of an inexorable desire for tax base growth and the implications for our community are rather interesting and could use more attention.