Because today's sprawl is too often built with public debt that
allows upstate developers to build big houses on large lots in what were, till yesterday, green fields.
ALBANY — Wednesday's decision to
allow developers to build Las Vegas - style casinos in three faded
upstate towns is perhaps most remarkable for what it lacks.
In addition, given the saturation of casinos
upstate, New York would be hard - pressed to find a private
developer willing to place another casino in Niagara Falls, especially next to the Senecas» tax - free casino, which also
allows gamblers to ignore New York's indoor anti-smoking laws.