Scenes from a Sprawl
The citizens of Berthoud thought they could control how fast their town grew. The developers had other ideas.
"That's probably the major concern I have," Karspeck says. "We end up with two different communities, with cropland in between. They'll be working in different places, and there will be little social interaction. They'll have different issues in elections. It's a situation with built-in division. How will that get bridged?"
Even the prospect of such a thing has already created two Berthouds out of the existing town, two divided camps: those in favor of the new beast, and those opposed. If there's ever to be a bridge between the two, who will build it?
"Democracy is a great thing," says Hindman. "But this is going to be a really ugly election."
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