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Paterson: Smart growth planning key to state economy

A failure to use smart-growth principles in the past is part of the reason the state is in economic free fall now, Gov. David A. Paterson said Friday at a development seminar.

"Smart growth is the idea of addressing the progress of the future rather than the comfort of the present," he told hundreds of representatives of the building, design and planning industries as well as various Islandwide...

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