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Why dig up pristine lands to allow millions of folks to move and ruin the environment? That's what El Lay allowed to happen. We are careful not to repeat their mistakes.
We actually have green belts in-between cities here. In our county it's mandatory because we established
Urban Limit Lines around each city. Urban Limit Lines, wot? ULLs are one reason why property values are expensive here because 35% of any city's perimeter won't ever be built upon.
The whole point is that El Lay lives above their environmental means....
Even though I was born there and grew up there, I am always shocked when I visit Los Angeles at how little green space there is -- how, amid league upon league of unending, uniform suburb there is just nowhere to walk in something resembling a natural environment. It is horrible !! The triumph of money-lusting developers over everything that might be called human !!
Here where I live, there are not only green-belts, but every residential area is chock-a-block with little parks and green pedestrian "linear parkways" between residences so that one may walk almost anywhere in park-like surroundings.
How it must infuriate the developers!! -- I fervently hope !!
