Well, then, the solution is for you to voluntarily move into the city and live in a high-rise condo or apartment. It is not for you to get the government to force me to do the same.
The urban sprawl movement is driven by the same soccer moms who elected clinton. They moved out to the suburbs 20 years ago and have a nice place with lots of open space around it. But they don't want anyone else to move near them and have a nice place.
Problem is--they don't own the open space. Someone else does. So they get the government to confiscate the value of the property of the owners of the open space (by prohibiting development) and give that value to the soccer moms. It's the "I've got mine. Now you stop getting yours" mentality.
The folks running the open-space movement, of course, have a different agenda. People are a lot easier to control and much more dependent on the government if you stack them up in boxes in the central city. So they manipulate the soccer moms, not telling them that the real goal of the movement is to get their kids living in high-rise boxes in the central city.
Actually, the solution for me was to sell my home in the city and move so far out into the sticks that seeing a vehicle on the road is an event. To each his own, but having 5 Home Depots (with Lowes right across the street), 3 Super Walmarts and uncountable Walgreens (with Eckards right across the street) within 20 minutes driving distance doesn't seem like good urban development to me.....