Why must the Bay Area grow in a different way than it has grown in the past?
Over the next 20 years, all of California is expected to experience substantial growth. In the Bay Area this growth is projected to be roughly one million new residents and one million new jobs. If we were to accommodate this growth the same way we have in the past, it will mean more freeways and less open space. It will mean longer commutes and the potential for worsening air quality. It will mean less time with family and more time on the highway. Overall, it will mean a degraded quality of life for most Bay Area residents. Unless housing is built in the Bay Area to accommodate them, about 250,000 people will be living outside the Bay Area — in the Central Valley, the Sacramento Valley, the Monterey region — and commuting to jobs in the Bay Area. The premise of Smart Growth is that the Bay Area can grow in a different way than in the past and reduce the potential that valuable open space and agricultural land will be consumed to build an excessive amount of housing “on the edge.” T
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