Urban sprawl

The Advertiser: Adelaide risks urban dead zone:Warning on the high cost of city sprawl :

"'If we lose contact with the environment, our children could grow up thinking concrete and bricks is all there is. I don't think life would be worth anything, the quality of life would be appalling.'"

The developers don't care. Poeple who get the houses don't care, so I guess we have to look at what guidelines we provide at a state level. I have seen so much of my drive turn into housing. I have seen all the housing sprawl up the Main North Road. I have watched Hallet Cove become over built and the other side spread all over the hills. It just goes on and on and we have even threatened the unique areas down at Aldinga Scrub. Not everyone can live "there". Pt. Willunga and Clarendon are turing into suburbs. Okay, it's how the rest of the world is and you see how the rest of the world becomes the bright lights , the big city and the urban jungle. Build, build, build. This is the biggest biodiversity study done in Adelaide. It will be well worth the read....and well worth the heed. Adelaide usually listens. We cannot keep building. We have to build away from areas prone to bush fires and flooding and we need to leave some soil and natural areas for our natives...and water! The thing which irritates me the most is when we have natural wetlands and we just change them and build on them. Instead of encouraging them, we dry them up and build more boxes with no gardens. The kids will lose out.