This is very timely Tom. I am starting to work on a brief challenging the Highway 100 project in Linn County.
Wally Taylor
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From: Thomas Mathews, CIG <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Lanfmatk ruling for major highway projects
This is very important, especially to those of us in Iowa, where we are witnessing the best farmland in the world being destroyed by highway-induced urban sprawl. (Our farmland does not require irrigation, unlike California's Central Valley.)
Tom Mathews,
Des Moines
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Date: June 21, 2012 2:26:23 PM CDT
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Cc: Dennis Lynch <[log in to unmask]>, "Sue A. Williams" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Landmark ruling for major highway projects
Let's talk about leveraging this for our projects.
Steven Sondheim
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Ruling changes playing field for proposed highways in the South
In a landmark ruling that has national implications, SELC scored a unanimous decision from the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals that NCDOT and the Federal Highway Administration broke federal law by failing to consider the sprawl-inducing impacts of the Monroe Bypass, a 20-mile proposed toll highway near Charlotte.
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