Off to the Imperial City

capitolI’m off to D.C. for the next few days to attend the American Dream Coalition’s annual conference in Washington, D.C., where I hope to discover why some of America’s leading conservative/free-market thinkers about transportation and land use are so hostile to smart growth. Are they committed to defending contemporary suburbia? Or would their public policy prescriptions dismantle the regulatory regime that has perpetuated sprawl, the antithesis of smart growth, that has defined suburbia since World War II? Do I share common ground with my fellow conservatives and free marketeers — or am I just a renegade? Hopefully, I’ll get some answers — along with a dollop of sound, free-market thinking.

My blogging will be light, or possibly non-existent, for the next few days.

— JAB