An urban growth boundary is described as a regional boundary that limits sprawl by doing what inside and outside?

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An urban growth boundary is described as a regional boundary that limits sprawl by doing what inside and outside?

The main idea is to contain where urban development can occur by drawing a regional boundary that channels growth inward and preserves areas outside the boundary for agriculture or open space. An urban growth boundary is designed to limit sprawl by concentrating higher-density development inside the boundary, while maintaining low-density uses such as farming outside it. This keeps valuable farmland and rural lands protected from conversion as the city grows. Other options miss the key mechanism: a transportation corridor guides routes and access, not the geographic limit of where growth can occur; a zoning overlay modifies land-use rules but doesn’t establish a regional boundary that separates urban from rural areas; a fiscal impact policy deals with development costs and funding, not the boundary that controls sprawl.

The main idea is to contain where urban development can occur by drawing a regional boundary that channels growth inward and preserves areas outside the boundary for agriculture or open space. An urban growth boundary is designed to limit sprawl by concentrating higher-density development inside the boundary, while maintaining low-density uses such as farming outside it. This keeps valuable farmland and rural lands protected from conversion as the city grows.

Other options miss the key mechanism: a transportation corridor guides routes and access, not the geographic limit of where growth can occur; a zoning overlay modifies land-use rules but doesn’t establish a regional boundary that separates urban from rural areas; a fiscal impact policy deals with development costs and funding, not the boundary that controls sprawl.

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