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My friend Chuck Marohn is making a career of detailing why this chasing-after-development is essentially a government-run Ponzi scheme, and he's right. Envy, it turns out, doesn't serve us well. Instead, the tax breaks, infrastructure and, down the road (literally) service and maintenance costs soon wipe out any short-term revenues, causing the jurisdiction to go into more debt, which it seeks to pay by chasing more sprawling development. For example, let me count the ways, in alphabetic order:ĮNVY – Nothing drives a cash-strapped jurisdiction nuts as much as watching a neighboring town/county/state land the next big corporate headquarters, stadium, business park, or big development, preferably without too many school-age kids to educate. So this got me to thinking about whether the traditional seven deadly sins correlated with problems with land use in America. They are right about that: I've written about cities and walkable neighborhoods (or the lack thereof) over 50 times in this space, according to my blog's archives.
#Seven deadly sins sloth series#
Find me a convenient parking space, please.Īnyway, the program seems to be one in a series sponsored by the Academy on "Science and the Deadly Sins." I think they invited me for sloth rather than, say, lust because I have written about how America's relatively unwalkable environment is, in fact, making us fat. I will say that being a (temporary, I hope) cripple on crutches does give one a different perspective on this walkability stuff. The program is sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, and it is more specifically titled "Sloth: Is Your City Making You Fat?" I want to scream, NO! It's this damn herniated disk that's making me fat, and I possibly just gave you too much information.
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How should I feel about this? Embarrassed? Insulted? Proud, in effect compounding one deadly sin with another? I have been invited to participate in a program tonight on sloth.