“... we suppress the brashness, energy and

“... we suppress the brashness, energy and inventiveness of local governments at our peril — even if some of those showy golf-course behomoths aren’t always to our individual liking. As a former colleague of mine, John Barnes, liked to put it, another word for sprawl is growth. It may not always be pretty, but at least it tends to reflect the freely made choices of real people, not the whims of government.” —Thomas Bray, “It’s a Sprawl World After All,” on OpinionJournal.com1