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<br /> Johnson and Ronald Reagan inaugurals.
<br /> Hargrove also shows me the 50y-z3400t VOTES
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<br /> George Washington's first inaugural, it's
<br /> made from 5,000 square yards of satin fab- A number of growth and sprawl initiatives appeared on "state and local ballots last
<br /> ric, the ruffles hand puffed and fastened fall , allowing voters to weigh in on the never-ending dispute between preserva-
<br /> with more than 500 , 000 staples . "You tionists and developers . Here are some results . ;
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<br /> think there's some history in here?" he asks
<br /> rhetorically. Hargrove, to whom the pres- PACE
<br /> idential inauguration committee turns ' In California, 21 of 34 slow-growth measures passed in various districts, and
<br /> every four years , seems almost over- 13 of 22 pro-growth measures were defeated , resulting in a 63 percent winning } . 0
<br /> whelmed by this unusual display ofAmer- percentage for slow-growth measures .
<br /> ican creativityand history; which opened
<br /> In Ohio, voters. allocated $400 million for reclaiming brownfields and pre-
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<br /> to the public last July. " How do you tell
<br /> 'r > serving farmland and other open spaces.
<br /> this story. he asks, almost pleadingly.. l
<br /> It all began in 1945 , when he first ❑ In Florida s Broward County, at least one vote count went uncontested. Voters
<br /> dressing windows for approved a $400 million bond to purchase land and to reclaim urban open space
<br /> joined his father dress .
<br /> liquor stores and drugstores . Soon ,
<br /> father and son were decorating for TRANSPORTATION
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<br /> events , building floats for the 2, 50th ❑ New Yorkers killed a proposition that would have authorized $ 3 . 8 billion in
<br /> Ii¢.li anniversaries of Arlington , Va . , and bonds to expand the states transportation infrastructure . Half of that money
<br /> Prince George's County, Md. , in 1946 . would have been invested in public transit . ti L
<br /> i They worked out of a small house in `
<br /> (d Across the Hudson , New Jersey voters gave the green light to deposit state tax
<br /> suburban Cheverly, Md. revenue from petroleum and auto sales into the Transportation Trust Fund. Offi-
<br /> Now his staff of 300 (which balloons
<br /> cials expect $z billion per year for the next four years to flow into the fund, financ- 1 . i
<br /> to nearly 1 , 000 during inauguration sea-
<br /> ing mass transit and highway capital projects.
<br /> son and includes four of his five children) '
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<br /> works out of an old Volkswagen distri- Monorail construction scored big in the last election. Floridians voted yes on ; ski
<br /> button plant with its own wood, paint, a measure to fund a monorail line linking five of Florida's biggest cities , and Seat-
<br /> and metal shops, among others— outside de set aside $ z million to build a system of its own .
<br /> the Capital Beltway. But from the tales I ,
<br /> he tells Hargrove is a Beltway insider. GROWTH BOUNDARIES
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<br /> , i Hardly anything has happened in ❑ In Arizona, voters ended two high-profile slow growth campaigns . They ;
<br /> Washington, D . C . , in the last 5o years rejected an initiative that would have required city and county governments to
<br /> MY company [Hargrove , Inc . ] hasn't adopt growth-management plans. The proposal would have imposed specific urban
<br /> been part of, " he says, matter-of-factly. boundaries , and would have forced suburban developers to pay for roads and
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<br /> Inaugurals aside, he draped the lobby schools to service new subdivisions .
<br /> of the AFL cio headquarters in black after
<br /> ❑ Voters also voted down a measure that sought to protect up to three percent
<br /> George Mean died in z 8o, and he did
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<br /> the same for the capital's Union Station of state trust land from sale and development. The law had been struck down by
<br /> the Arizona Superior Court, but an appeal by the state was upheld by the Arizona
<br /> for the arrival of Robert F. Kennedys cas-
<br /> Supreme Court long enough for the public to have the final word.
<br /> 4 ket. "We laid red carpet from where the p g g p ty
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<br /> um train was coming in all the way into the ❑ Colorado's Responsible Growth Initiive ied at the voters' hands . Under the
<br /> ° station, covered all the steel poles black or proposal, cities and counties would have had to submit impact statements on new `
<br /> red. It was really beautiful. Of course, the construction plans in undeveloped areas to voters, outlining the cost and effect on
<br /> train came in, and the rest is history. " traffic, schools , open space, air quality, and emergency services . Development '
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<br /> 0 To store—much less display—all that would have been limited to areas where local governments could have financed the 4 i
<br /> o Hargrove has kept over the years , he additional roads, central water, and sewage systems within zo years .
<br /> a needs acres and acres of space . He leases —Will Yandik � .
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