• A million-square-foot shopping mall announced for Pabst Farms, the 1,500-acre planned community of single-family homes and businesses on once-agricultural farmland at state Highway 67 and I-94.
• An office, retail and residential project twice as large as the Pabst Farms mall proposed on Delafield open space at I-94 and Highway C extending to the edge of Lapham Peak State Park in the Kettle Moraine.
• The City of New Berlin's surprise, precedent-setting request to pipe Lake Michigan water across existing legal and geographic boundaries.
• The City of Waukesha Plan Commission's preliminary approval for a 300-acre annexation for $100 million of upscale housing close to the Vernon Marsh, one of the region's premier surviving wetlands.
• The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission's adoption of an updated regional transportation plan with 446 miles of new or widened major highway lanes in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Washington, Ozaukee, Racine, Kenosha and "
"We believe that we must control urban sprawl," said WEAL. "It is more costly to provide services (roads, fire and police protection, school busing, sewers, garbage pick-up) to a scattered population. Sprawl affects the taxes of everyone and stresses the environment."