https://marketurbanism.com/2010/11/15/environmentalism-vs-density-federal-style/ Liberalizing cities | From the bottom up Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:30:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1 https://marketurbanism.com/2010/11/15/environmentalism-vs-density-federal-style/#comment-9328 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:48:00 +0000 http://www.marketurbanism.com/?p=1761#comment-9328 The reason that federal environmental review has to be completed is because the project is using federal funding. All federally funded project have to have environmental assessments. This was required in response to the massive highway projects in the 60s that destroyed towns by using federal funds to cut through them. Still, you are right, it does favor sprawl development and projects which don’t require federal funding. Still the requirement for environmental review has its basis in a need to ensure the least harmful use of federal funding.

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