“Cornithaca County” uses the concept of “US” as a way for the Elite to move their burdens onto the backs of others.
Even though Ithaca is one of the most expensive cities in the country to live in; it retains its neighborhoods of wood frame houses and surrounds itself with large tracts of “conservation spaces;” while pushing thousands of housing units into the meadows and fields of outlying rural communities and creating Urban “Nodes.”
The County’s latest Comprehensive Plan doesn’t mention “urban sprawl” once.