Editing Urban growth boundary (section)

==History==
[[File:The Metropolitan Green Belt among the green belts of England.svg|thumb|The [[Metropolitan Green Belt]] first proposed by the [[London County Council]] in 1935.|180px]]
Opposition to unregulated [[urban sprawl|urban growth]] and [[ribbon development]] began to grow towards the end of the 19th century in England. The campaign group [[Campaign to Protect Rural England]] (CPRE) was formed in 1926 and exerted environmentalist pressure. Implementation of the notion dated from [[Herbert Morrison]]'s 1934 leadership of the [[London County Council]]. It was first formally proposed by the Greater London Regional Planning Committee in 1935, "to provide a reserve supply of public open spaces and of recreational areas and to establish a [[Green belt (United Kingdom)|green belt]] or girdle of open space".

New provisions for compensation in the ''[[Town and Country Planning Act 1947|1947 Town and Country Planning Act]]'' allowed local authorities around the country to incorporate green belt proposals in their first [[development plans]]. The codification of Green Belt policy and its extension to areas other than London came with the historic Circular 42/55 inviting local planning authorities to consider the establishment of Green Belts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/155499.pdf|title=Planning Policy Guidance 2: Green belts|access-date=2013-11-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609171722/http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/155499.pdf |date=January 1995 |ISBN=0 11 753037 9 |website=Department for Communities and Local Government |archive-date=2012-06-09|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the [[United States]], the first urban growth boundary was established in 1958, around the city of [[Lexington, Kentucky]]. Lexington's population was expanding, and city leaders were concerned about the survival of the surrounding horse farms closely tied to the city's cultural identity. The first statewide urban growth boundary policy was implemented in [[Oregon]], under then governor [[Tom McCall]], as part of the state's [[land-use planning]] program in the early 1970s. Tom McCall and his allies convinced the Oregon Legislature in 1973 to adopt the nation's first set of statewide land use planning laws. McCall, with the help of a unique coalition of farmers and environmentalists, persuaded the Legislature that the state's natural beauty and easy access to nature would be lost in a rising tide of [[urban sprawl]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oregonmetro.gov/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=277|title=Urban growth boundary|date=19 May 2014|publisher=Metro |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502184403/https://www.oregonmetro.gov/urban-growth-boundary |archive-date= May 2, 2023 }}</ref> The new goals and guidelines required every city and county in Oregon to have a long-range plan addressing future growth that meets both local and statewide goals. The state of [[Tennessee]] passed the Tennessee Growth Policy Act
(TGPA) in 1998 as a response to the state's growing population, increased land development, and conflicts regarding [[Municipal annexation in the United States|municipal annexation]]. Tennessee in the year prior to the TGPA's passing was ranked 4th in the United States for fastest rates of land development.<ref name="tacir98">{{cite web |title=Public Chapter 1101 – The Tennessee Growth Policy Act |url=https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/tacir/tacir-insights/2019PC1101Insights.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123155415/https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/tacir/tacir-insights/2019PC1101Insights.pdf |archive-date=2020-01-23 |url-status=live |website=[[Tennessee Advisory Commission on Interngovernmental Relations]] |access-date=June 25, 2022}}</ref>