Kansas City Urbanization

Its a true fact that urbanization brings plentiful production to an area. Sometimes the public isn't as willing to accept urbanization with open arms. In Kansas City, Missouri the residence are very unhappy at the cities plans to introduce a metro connector to a rural area. The people of Kansas City are very unimpressed with some of the changes being made to the area. Some of the residence claim that there thoughts and comments are being unheard. Yet the city officials are saying otherwise. They claim that they have been trying to meet the needs of the public full force. They unfortunately can not meet all the different demands of the public and the growing cities needs. They claim to have suggested different alternatives like increasing the speed limit and making it a 2 to 4 lane road. This they say will also improve the roads standards because most of them arnt even paved. In the next couple of years they expect an influx of people into the city and that will drive up traffic counts. They already see it happening with the traffic doubling in a decade. A lot of residents are expected to lose homes and land. The residence believe that the road will bring urbanization to rural area and deplete all the natural wildlife and beauty to the region.
I picked this article because even though the issue is within the United States and not in a developing country, it points out some very important differences. The pluses of urbanization is starting to seep into areas where it is not wanted. To some not needed. The people oppose but yet are continuously denied by the county because the government is looking more toward the good of the future as opposed to the present. They don't want urbanization. At least not yet anyways and are extremely worried of what will happen to the land around them. It raises a good point. How much of urbanization can continue before the world depletes. Or even how much of urbanization can continue before it spreads into suburbia or even rural residential areas where people purposely move to escape the hussle and bussle of the city.
http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/294443.html