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Originally Posted by CIA
Florida has to be the most sprawled state in the nation. Whatever methods the state thinks it has to prevent sprawl has severely failed in the eyes of the rest of the country.
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I disagree. Every state sprawls. Florida allows for dense high rise development along their shores and many of the metros are physically constrained. It is a state of 20 million that is rapidly growing. When you look at the urban area map of Florida there are huge metros, separated by huge areas that are basically uninhabitable, which is quite different from other states that can sprawl all across their boundaries.
I would think that Georgia and N.C. are bigger offenders. Certainly anything east of KCMO is characterized by metros separated by low density settlements all across the land. This is not possible in a place like Florida [swamps, wetlands] and western states [mountains, federal lands, Indian reservations].