Amount of farm and forest land Connecticut loses to development every
year, according to lawmakers and environmentalists promoting a new
proposal to direct $1 billion in state spending for open land over the
next 10 years:
More than 10,000 acres
Source: Hartford Courant, 2/16/07
Total land area of the state of Connecticut = 5,544 miles. There are 640 acres per square mile. That means that 15.62 sq. miles was developed last year. That means 2/10ths of a percent of the area of Connecticut was developed last year.
The sum total of revenue produced for the state by private enterprise far outweighs what TAKING $1 billion from the state to purchase “open land” will ever do. These type of statistics always seem damning, but context is rarely mentioned. Similar efforts are underway to do the same in NC. Ultra-enviro lefties rarely can understand the enormity of land that exists.
