by Ron Beitler

I’m away for the week with my business partners shooting back to back destination weddings in Bermuda then Jamaica. (Plug for my business here.) Didn’t want the blog to go dark for a week so decided to pre-schedule a cross post from James Bacon over at www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com.

If you are right of center politically and you think that smart growth is just for tree huggers or crazily some wacky agenda 21 conspiracy theory to take over the world then you should spend five minutes to read this post.

Then if the argument makes sense, purchase Pamela Blais’s “Perverse Cities” and read it. Conservatives are missing a tremendous opportunity to re-frame the debate over growth and development in line with the principles of fiscal responsibility and free markets. I never will understand why. But it’s never too late to change.

(Cross posted from Smart Growth for Lower Macungie.)