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04/15/2005: "Spokane: 2nd from Last (according to Tom Sowa!)"

Our good friend Tom Sowa reports on a visit by Alan Durning, of Northwest Environmental Education Council. Lets just read it together:

Where Spokane was viewed more closely in this year's score card, the result was a next-to-bottom grade in the category of urban sprawl.

Of seven metropolitan areas located in Cascadia, Spokane is second-to-worst when it comes to sprawl, according to NEW. "The worst is Boise," said Durning. "Those two are the leading examples of sprawl," he said.

The best cities in Cascadia, based on protecting rural land from encroached development, were Vancouver, B.C. and Portland, he said.