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 Stories About: Indiana AND news AND placemaking AND sprawl AND water pollution
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Tippecanoe and Tainted Too
Indiana county has three times more parking spaces than residents |
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19 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 3:23 PM on 19 Sep 2007 Indiana's Tippecanoe County is home to 155,000 residents whom apparently are swamped with visitors, as the county has 355,000 public parking spaces. We'll just float this by them: Parking lots can contribute to water pollution, erosion, the urban heat island effect, and local flooding. Which could be extra dangerous for those in a Tippecanoe -- if you get our drift. They ... |
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| Topics: Indiana, news, placemaking, sprawl, water pollution (all these topics) |
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