1.   Seventy percent of the voters approved Measure G, which sets an urban growth boundary around the perimeter of Novato.

2.   Among other things, both statewide proposals would require many towns to create growth boundaries approved by voters.

3.   Baron of the Center for Law in the Public Interest says the growth boundary pushed Portland to use its resources differently and could do the same for Arizona cities.

4.   Critics say the urban growth boundary has driven up home prices by creating an artificial shortage of land.

5.   Flagstaff has actually had a version of growth boundaries for years, limiting the elevation to which it would extend waterlines at public expense.

6.   For its part, the county has drawn rural growth boundaries, which basically take in all the unincorporated private prop erty near Flagstaff.

7.   He grew up in Portland, and he hates the intense development, the way land is being chewed up inside the urban growth boundary.

8.   If the initiative passes, communities would take awhile to draw growth boundaries, but interim restrictions would kick in right away.

9.   Inside the growth boundary, one of the hottest issues is home prices.

10.   Metro chief Burton, however, argues that a growth boundary is crucial to shaping how a region grows.