HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Land & Resource Management
SUBCOMMITTEE: Urban Sprawl

TIME & DATE:  1:00PM, Thursday, May 16, 2002

PLACE: Sugarland, TX (see below)

CHAIR: Rep. Anna Mowery

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The Subcommittee on Urban Sprawl will meet in the Sugarland City Council
Chamber, 10405 Corporate Drive, Sugarland, Texas, to consider the
following:

Interim Charge 1:  Conduct a comprehensive examination of issues
associated with the expansion of metropolitan areas into formerly rural
areas ("urban sprawl"), including impacts on infrastructure, alteration of
the rural or small town character, and the loss of open spaces including
farm land and wildlife habitat.  Consider the range of state, local and
private measures (including the purchase of development rights) that might
mitigate the negative aspects of such growth.

Public testimony will be taken.

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