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Parts of Connecticut are still being built-out, around the Danbury area. Much of Westchester, Putnam, and Dutchess have adopted very limited land use regulations in recent years to preserve open spaces and lessen environmental impact on the reservoirs in the area.
Ain't nothing wrong with steady sustainable growth. Would rather see the inner-ring suburbs kick their density up a notch like eastern Queens has been doing slowly but surely, but that'll probably never happen.
It seems to be that across the entire country suburban sprawl has come to a sudden halt, especially with this housing crisis.
But is the Tri-state area still growing?
-Long Island seems pretty built up to me as far as you could possibly commute into the city.
-Westchester and Connecticut seemed like it was the most rural but still had many McMansions and smaller towns spread through out the area.
-And the New Jersey commuter towns and suburbs also seem pretty built up, even up to over an hour commute out of the city.
Has the NYC metro area been totally built up where there is no more room to expand further out?
In the tri-state area, New Jersey and Long Island (closer to Queens) are the worst offenders of sprawl. Moving into Westchester, it becomes much less visible and it contained much better. Going further north into Connecticut, sprawl is only a problem in a few areas. Connecticut has done an excellent job containing sprawl--as compared to most states' urban areas.
Has the NYC metro area been totally built up where there is no more room to expand further out?
No. There are still growing suburbs on the fringes. They're just moving further out in places like Orange County upstate and the Poconos in Pennsylvania.
Also, Manhattan's share of employment in the region gets lower every year, so the idea that there is an "end" to the commute people are willing to handle isn't as relevant as it once was. You have sprawl upstate driven by people who work in White Plains, sprawl in Pennsylvania from people who work in Parsippany, New Jersey, etc. There are a certain core set of industries that are directly tied to Manhattan, but other businesses have been moving out of the city themselves and will continue to do.
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