Insurance Drives Sprawl The GLRC has an interesting feature that looks at how insurance rates may be driving suburban sprawl. Lower insurance rates encourage moving to the suburbs, big city mayors say the higher rates in urban areas discourage redevelopment in the city and sprawling suburbs increase infrastructure costs for everyone as huge networks of highways must be built to accomodate commuters. Sprawl City has a list of the most sprawling cities that includes Detroit (18) and Grand Rapids (65). Read/Listen to Insurance Rates Driving Sprawl? from the Great Lakes Radio Consortium Also see Auto and Homeowners Rates in Urban Areasfrom the Insurance Institute of Michigan Read But What About Detroit? from Sprawl City Posted/updated Mar 28, 2006 by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan) click to Send This Story to a Friend! Main Michigan News Page Go Back One Page

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