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Carissa Schively-Slotterback comments on land-use plans in New York.

As to the plan, some critics said it wasn't a real academic land-use plan. But the council chose to get beyond land use and transportation to broader strategies. Carissa Schively Slotterback, a University of Minnesota planning professor studying this and other regional plans, said its emphasis on educational equity and governance was smart, arising organically from the region's needs.

Newsday
July 16, 2011