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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
Shitty news for people who even remotely like cities.
Sigh.
Will the goddamn green space fetish ever die?
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I don't see what you seeing to object to in the Green space expansion. It seems to be based on sound concepts, identifying significant natural areas and connecting them with ecological corridors. This is different than just taking a protractor out and drawing concentric circles to define an artificial barrier. It's creating a barrier to development where there are natural areas worth protecting.
We don't have to choose between green space and cities. They reinforce each other. As other posters have noted, limiting the areas into which a city can sprawl puts pressure on developers to intensify where they are allowed to develop. Obviously this doesn't happen automatically. We have to defend those natural areas on one side and promote the intensification on the other.
The NCC seems to be slowly moving beyond the "belt" in greenbelt and if they can find the flexibility to sell some farmland near Bayshore to buy huge tracts of the Marlborough Forest or the South March Highlands, that's a good thing.