Quote Originally Posted by iheartthed View Post
I do think that long term budgeting was a good idea and necessary step. And I don't want to come across as picking on Oakland County, but...

...the current county executive there has publicly praised sprawl as a sound economic strategy. Either he doesn't understand the difference between growth and sprawl, or he is intentionally misleading his constituents to believe that sprawl has no downside.

Plus all this talk about shrinking the geographic area of the city of Detroit is a moot point unless the region acknowledges that Metro Detroit doesn't have the population growth to develop previously undeveloped areas. If Oakland, Macomb or Western Wayne continue to subsidize greenfield developments, that will still suck people out of Detroit and inner-ring areas, no matter how many sections of the city you try to shut down and return to nature.

Bingo......