Way Forward:

♤ Address the lacunae in the current rural-urban categorization system. This would ensure that new areas come under municipality limits and enjoy municipal services.

♤ Affordable and modern housing within already developed area with intelligent use of space.

♤ Provide efficient services and reform governance structures to boost overall economic development.

♤ Use zoning and other land use regulations to create development patterns that make active transportation, in the form of walking and cycling, practical for shortest of trips.

♤ Assuring that development is spread out fairly city-wide so that issues of

accessibility to housing and work don’t arise.

♤ Ensuring that tax incentives given by one suburb do not penalize other suburbs or the central city.

Inadequacy of cities to provide affordable and quality options has resulted in suburbanization. We need to improve existing urban amenities while simultaneously addressing the problems of suburban sprawls.