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Housing:
- People live farther apart and have more privacy
- Most new housing is single-family homes on large lots
- Fewer housing choices than today; less housing available in all categories, except large-lot, single family
- Single family homes would represent 77% of the housing mix, up from 68% in 1990
- Average size of single-family lot increases from 0.32 acre today to 0.37 acre in 2020
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Transportation:
- People benefit from convenience of automobile travel and expanded road network
- Fewer transportation choices, due to increased reliance on automobile travel
- Compared to the other scenarios that means:
- Increasing vehicle travel
- Families need to own more cars
- More money used for highway development
- 1.5% of population has easy access to rail transit
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Land:
- Land consumption is higher than in other scenarios
- Urbanized areas grow by 95% from 1998 to 2020
- Open space and farmland are consumed more rapidly than in any other scenario
- Reuse of existing urban areas is minimal
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Cost:
- Affordable housing farther away from jobs, services, etc., than in any other scenario
- Infrastructure most expensive of all scenarios
- Personal transportation costs highest of all scenarios
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Water:
- Water demand is the highest of all scenarios, primarily because of outdoor water use
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Air
Quality:
- More vehicle travel created worst air quality of all scenarios
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