Smart Growth Plan's Perils: Bill would federalize no-growth regulations nationwide by Patricia Callahan, President of the American Association of Small Property Owners: April 10, 2002 Scant attention has been paid to legislation currently working its way through Congress that would institute a $250 million grant program to federalize no-growth (euphemistically called "smart growth") regulations nationwide. The result would be devastating for small property investors, both urban and rural. S. 975 would require local governments to implement land management plans using model "smart growth" statutes provided in a 2,000-page "Legislative Guidebook" developed during the Clinton Administration by the American Planning...