PARKS AND OPEN SPACES 135 



a group of counties within a natural watershed area can do a job 

 very effectively in the area of beautification, water conservation, 

 wildlife habitat preservation, and so on. 



We are at the apex of three counties. Can you imagine trying 

 to save an open space area under that situation? We tried and lost. 

 Now we have a State law going through which is called a local 

 cooperation statute so a number of the municipalities in that area 

 can join together and bond themselves, and condemn open space land 

 in order to save it for our future generations. 



This area is the Wolf River Basin. If you talked about zoning 

 to the townships a few years ago, they would run you out of town. 

 Today the problems are so serious they can't wait until regional 

 planning comes in with a program of land use, planning, and zoning. 



If you want to strengthen the whole effort and want to unify the 

 Federal effort, regional planning is going to do this. I just attended 

 a national watershed conference. One of the Western State repre- 

 sentatives said three Federal agencies and his State had separate 

 programs. The Bureau of the Budget said, "Look, if you fellows 

 don't get together you won't get a dime." 



I think the Bureau had the whip hand there; it used it, and should 

 have used it. Regional effort strengthens the local effort and helps 

 to unify its purposes. 



Statements Submitted for the Record 



BYRON R. HANKE. The carpeting of more millions of acres for 

 new homes need not thwart our efforts to provide open areas for 

 an urban society. 



Adequate land planning for future development could be rewarded 

 by a dividend of half-million acres of new urban parks in the next 

 35 years. The vehicle through which this acreage could be provided, 

 improved and maintained is known as the planned-unit development 

 with a homes association. It can be done without extra initial costs 

 to developers, homebuyers or government, and without an increase 

 in the general tax burden. 



In the planned-unit development or cluster technique for devel- 

 oping new residential areas, the large open spaces and recreational 

 areas are obtained by intensive use of land for housing in some sectors 

 while preserving other sectors as open space for the benefit of the 

 residents. 



This does not necessarily alter over-all residential density patterns. 



