Lebanon — Wanted or not, development is coming to Boone County, and now is the time for the county’s residents to determine where and how that growth will occur.
About 30 people gathered around folding tables in the Farm Bureau Inc. Community Building at the Boone County Fairgrounds Thursday for an agriculture roundtable lunch and discussion sponsored by the Boone Economic Development Corp.
“Growth: How Much is Too Much?” was the roundtable’s topic.
Moderator Dax Norton, director of the EDC, opened the event by showing the film, “Built to Last,” produced by independent filmmaker John Paget with First+Main Media.
The short film calls for expansion of “New Urbanism,” which envisions the restructuring of communities to eliminate sprawl and centralize residential, commercial and social services, and asks, what if a suburb with a population of 1 million people were reduced to a footprint of 40 square miles and placed someplace sustainable?
For more of the story, see Friday’s Lebanon Reporter.
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