Essay On Suburban Sprawl

Suburban sprawl is a major issue impacting Brampton and the lives of many people. Suburban sprawl is when urban development spreads into rural or suburban areas. This sprawl is affecting Brampton in positive and negative ways. The question is how this sprawl will affect me in the future. Suburban sprawl is something that needs to be thought of and controlled more carefully.
Urban development (such as housing and construction) spreading into rural or suburban areas can be described as suburban sprawl. For example, Toronto’s urban development expanding into Brampton. Over the past few years, a lot of suburban sprawl has been happening in the GTA. Suburban sprawl can mean that human needs such as public transit or stores could be reached without having to travel a long distance. However, sprawl can also result in air pollution, climate change, and loss of agricultural land use. These factors especially

apply in the city of Brampton.
Brampton started to become a major victim of suburban sprawl since 2004. Firstly, Brampton is losing constantly losing farmland due to development like commercial areas and housing. This would mean that residents would have less local food to buy and Brampton wouldn’t be able as much of their local food as they used to. In addition, this development is giving the Brampton government more things to pay for, so taxes might increase in the next few years. However, this suburban sprawl can result in some positives like public transit. Developing public transit can take many cars off the road, which creates less traffic, and less car chemicals damaging the atmosphere. For example, the Mount Pleasant GO Station, which was made a few years ago, has let many people in Brampton to travel to places using train or bus. Although suburban sprawl may have its advantages now, there are more things to consider when looking into the future.
There are many ways in which suburban sprawl can affect my future.

First of all, as I explained before, the more urban development happens, the more the city has to pay for. Of course, if this sprawl continues at the same rate, civilians would have to pay more taxes in the future. Furthermore, although transit is being majorly developed, the sprawl is also making cities more dependent on automobiles. For example, to go somewhere nearby, it is much easier to go in a personal vehicle rather than having to wait for a bus. As the city develops more, it is creating more nearby places to go to. This is how suburban sprawl could result in me becoming more dependent on my personal automobile in the future. Lastly, sprawl can lead to climate change and air pollution in the future. This is because it requires energy for things like construction and automotive transit which results in burning fossil fuel. With the increased amount of fossil fuels burned, it would also increase the amount of greenhouse gas emissions. That is how suburban sprawl could affect my

future.
As you can see, there are many things to consider when thinking of suburban sprawl. Suburban sprawl is the expansion of urban areas into low-density, rural, or suburban areas. It can have both positive and negative effects on Brampton. Finally, the government needs to consider how this sprawl will affect people in the future. All in all, the economic, environmental, and social impact are things that need to put into consideration before suburban sprawl happens.