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MICHAEL R. FAGAN. I, too, would like to express a concern we 

 have heard from the other two planners. The County of San 

 Bernardino, largest in the United States, was zoned industrially, the 

 entire 20,000 square miles in 1951. We now have four interstate 

 freeways, each one of which has approximately 250 to 300 miles of 

 industrially zoned land. I think that a recommendation from this 

 conference should be to support and encourage local cities and coun- 

 ties to enforce the laws that they have enacted, particularly zoning 

 laws. Without this support at the Federal level, the very fears that 

 we have expressed variances and waivers of one kind or another 

 will continue to occur. All plans proposed by this conference will be 

 subverted because you will not have effectual support from your own 

 local level. You cannot ignore local support and I strongly urge a 

 recommendation from this conference to support local zoning control 

 through enforcement. 



JACK B. ROBERTSON. In 1961, Washington State passed a com- 

 prehensive law regulating billboards along the interstate highway 

 throughout the full length without exception and on certain addi- 

 tional scenic highways, chiefly in the mountain passes. That law is the 

 best law in the continental United States; it is excelled only by the 

 law in Hawaii. Because of this our State has been singled out for 

 reprisals both in the courts and legislature by the outdoor advertising 

 industry and others. 



I am shocked that any member of the panel would entertain rec- 

 ommending to the President a law which is weaker than some of the 

 State laws already on the books. 



Mr. IVES. Let me interrupt. How do you know what the 

 panel is thinking of doing? This is twice that this has been discussed. 

 I am sure that the panel doesn't even know themselves. So, I don't 

 know how anybody can be shocked as to what the panel is thinking 

 when the panel does not know what it is thinking itself. 



Mr. ROBERTSON. In 1964, the Federal Government passed the 

 Transportation Act. Its purpose was to establish a transportation 

 policy. 



I recommend that this panel recommend to the President that 

 billboard control be instituted as a matter of policy on all rapid 

 transit lines otherwise we will have a continuation of the American 

 highway disease along the rapid transit lines. 



