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Posted by  Wanda Ballentine on October 04, 2000 at 10:29:52:

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From: "Greg LeRoy"
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Subject: SBA Subsidies and Sprawl
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:44:37 -0400
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The issue of economic development subsidies and their impact on urban sprawl
is woefully under-studied. Good Jobs First made the link last January with
our "Another Way Sprawl Happens" report (at
http://www.ctj.org/itep/anoka.htm) and the Sierra Club added a terrific case
study in their latest "Sprawl Costs Us All" report in April (at
http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/report00/).

Now comes another report, from Friends of the Earth and the Forest
Conservation Council. FCC mapped $391 million in loans and loan guarantees
made by the Small Business Administration in the Washington DC area since
1997. The map shows a doughnut ring of incentives around DC - especially in
the high-growth sprawl areas --
at http://www.foe.org/act/sbamap.html

FOE and FCC are warning SBA that it is not properly assessing the
environmental (and sprawl) impacts of its deals as required by the National
Environmental Protection Act and SBA regulations. The text of the FOE/FCC
complaint to the SBA is at
http://www.foe.org/act/sbapr.html

Greg LeRoy
Good Jobs First -- www.goodjobsfirst.org

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