sprawl.01
frames-  Las Colinas , once a huge Texas ranch , is a [rel  sprawling]  [ARG1  complex]  of office buildings , homes and recreational facilities that its developers have been struggling *-2 to populate *T*-1 in recent years .
-  Several factors apparently spared the Valley -- a [rel  sprawling]  [ARG1  suburban]  stretch from San Jose to Palo Alto -- from the kind of impact felt * in San Francisco , an hour 's drive north .