be served by an awesome
network of public transit, but if investments continue into dense areas of LA
City you should see market forces at work -> public transit availability
driving higher density development, driving more desire for public transit.

You can't de-sprawl Southern California as a whole, but you can make the dense
urban core more palatable.

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Aloha
The sprawl in the LA metro area was built on the back of the then largest
interurban system in the world, the Pacific Electric. If you take a map and
overlay it on the modern freeway system, there are large parallels. There are
also parts of LA City that have (and not even recently acquired) density
rivaling Manhattan.

The future of maintainable sprawl is workable wide ranging rail and bus
options, rail for the distance, bus for the last mile.

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There was anService / Region 5

Partners: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / Region 5, Bavon Beach Homeowners Association, Mathews County, The Nature Conservancy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and several interested corporate partners

Overview

A peaceful beach on the serene coast of Virginia holds a rich history as home to generations of families and abundant wildlife. But as Mother Nature changes the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay, the homeowners on this beach have struggled to protect their narrowing strips of sand. Here at Bavon Beach, the northeastern beach tiger beetle, a federally threatened insect, has become the root to the solution to save this shore.

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