Curbing Sprawl in Maine

Curbing sprawl in Maine will require hard decisions, such as ending state subsidies for school transportation and sending more aid to cities with high tax rates, former Maine governor Angus King said during a recent statewide summit.

Sprawl poses the biggest threat to Maine's future economic development, King said. But the state is fueling the problem with government subsidies - such as the $85 million that state and local governments spend each year to bus children to school, he said. Such subsidies enable people to abandon cities and villages, move out to more rural areas and pass on the cost to taxpayers.

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