current planning overview
According to Cities and Growth: A Policy Handbook St. Louis has developed land at a rate that is seven times greater than the population growth, resulting in an abandonment of homes and an increase in vacant lots. The Metropolitan Congregations United crafted a plan that will create a new Legislative Interim committee on Urban Growth which will have the ability to makes pans regarding urban growth and stop the sprawl movement. An anti-sprawl movement is what the people of St. Louis want to see in future urban design plans throughout their city. Sprawl movements creates askew development patterns which encourage unequal housing and educational opportunities leading to racial and class segregation. Kemp states “New rules are needed” meaning planning commissions need to stop abandoning old homes, towns, and businesses and creating new areas of development and instead revamp already existing neighborhoods and make improvements to stimulate growth once again. [10] These anti-sprawl techniques are reflected in the most recent and future urban planning designs for the city of St.Louis which will be discussed in this section.
[10]Rusk, David. Cities and Growth: A Policy Handbook. Ed. Roger L. Kemp. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarladn and COmpany, Inc, 2008. Print.