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Randal O'Toole, Director of the Center for the American Dream in Golden, and Author of The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths

Growth Management is certainly today’s most complex challenge for municipalities. Making intelligent decisions involves consideration of effects on transportation, housing affordability and economic viability. To make intelligent decisions it’s important to consider as much research as possible.

The Land Use Coalition is initiating a series of luncheons and invites your participation. We recognize the importance of bringing people together and sharing perspectives on growth management and other topics. We begin our series with Randal O’Toole speaking on the effects of “smart growth.”

Should Denver spend 60 percent of our transportation funds on rail-transit systems that will never carry more than 1 or 2% of regional travel?

Should we limit people's ability to have their own backyards and destroy other urban open spaces that people value in the name of protecting rural open spaces?

What are the effects of increased congestion and housing prices on low-income people and minorities?

Randal O'Toole, director of the Center for the American Dream in Golden, and author of The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths, addressed these questions and more during lunch at Dolan's restaurant, on Nov. 12, 2003.

Randal provides a well-researched slide show illuminating the seldom-heard truth about the effects of so-called "smart growth" on personal mobility and homeownership.

More information on Randal O’Toole can be found at the following websites:
www.i2i.org/cad.aspx
www.americandreamcoalition.org/guide.html
www.ti.org (The Thoreau Institute)