API President Writes in New Brunswick Daily on Rural-Urban Planning

We often hear it said that our professional planning bodies should take on more of an advocacy role in attempting to persuade the politicians and the public of the need for and the virtues of good planning. Yet we have seldom seen this good intention translated into reality

A good example of a dialogue between public and planner has come up in New Brunswick. In that province, the 1992 report of The Commission on Land Use and the Rural Environment (CLURE) raised urban sprawl as its significant concern. In the decade since, CLURE seems to have sunk into the grey seas under without a trace.

A writer in the Saint John Telegraph Journal commented on the economic problems arising for the province in the absence of any clear policies dealing with sprawl. API's President has responded with a statement outlining the efforts planners have made and continue to make on this issue.

.... Read API's response as published on Feb. 23, 2002

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