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ultimately be strengthened, in the manner of the Highway Act of 

 1962, to make a regional planning and decision making process a 

 requirement for any Federal loan or grant assistance. 



Regional planning and decision making should be accomplished 

 by a regional agency composed of local city and county elected 

 officials, who have direct and personal political responsibility for 

 the development and condition of the regional environment. Ad- 

 visory citizen planning commissions or committees of planners, 

 engineers or other administrative officers cannot make political de- 

 cisions, hence, the requirement for representation by elected officials 

 of local general governments. 



2. Planning funds should be made available for governmental 

 decision making or organizational studies as a part of a comprehen- 

 sive regional development planning process. 



3. The establishment of the requirement that all regional de- 

 velopment planning financed by section 701 funds (Housing Act) 

 include an element of the comprehensive plan on the regional land- 

 scape and regional beautification, including a section on the preser- 

 vation and use of areas of regional historic significance. 



4. Since local governments are the creation of State governments, 

 thought should be given to the requirement of State planning and 

 coordination, which would identify and relate the State's interest 

 to regional interest, and in turn both to the Federal interest, all as 

 a condition to the continued use of the many, many Federal pro- 

 grams administered through the States. 



These steps will help the States and the localities to begin the 

 long road toward regional decision making and action as the popu- 

 lation in metropolitan areas doubles over the decades just ahead. 



JACK WOOD. I wish to suggest the following: 



1. That all States receiving Federal funds under the local plan- 

 ning assistance program (sec. 701 of the Housing Act of 1954, 

 as amended) be required to prepare and adopt a comprehensive 

 State plan for physical development. Provision should be made 

 for periodic review and revision, when necessary. 



2. That the States should impose zoning jurisdiction over the 

 counties, as in the State of Hawaii. Such zoning jurisdiction should 

 be imposed on the counties only to the degree necessary, leaving 

 purely local matters to local governments. For example, the State 

 could determine the principal uses of land and prescribe regula- 

 tions for, say, land to be used for urban purposes, conservation, and 



