The town council has recently implemented strict zoning regulations designed to prevent suburban sprawl.

For one, the plan emphasizes the need to focus future development in existing commercial centers and corridors to prevent urban sprawl and protect open space.

All have restrictive zoning laws to prevent sprawl and overdevelopment.

"In an environmental sense, the black holes are actually preventing galactic sprawl from taking over the neighborhood."

In the 1980s, growth in the area was stunted to prevent urban sprawl.

The intent of these statutes is to prevent urban sprawl on environmentally sensitive land and to accommodate future growth in approved settlement areas only.

High-rise buildings prevent sprawl and lessen the need to extend the city out onto the greenbelt.

Supports higher taxation on community-owned land to prevent urban sprawl.

In areas where such infrastructure is lacking the plan tries to prevent sprawl by encouraging mixed-use and compact development.

Whether modern growth management laws will prevent sprawl in northern suburbs is far from certain.