Portland's Urban Growth Boundary: A Driver of Suburban Sprawl

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Charger, you're incorrect that density doesn't result. Of course it does. Development patterns are much denser in places with growth management or natural boundaries plus high demand, including Portland as well as the rest of the West Coast. Portland's not dense, but it's land efficient on a per-type basis, like smaller lots for houses. Some leapfrogging does happen, but that's only one factor.

You act like this is only theory.