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The low Federal cost-share makes experimentation risky and 

 administrators are not known as innovators, anyway. 



A portion of annual appropriations for both programs ought to be 

 set aside for demonstration grants to try new techniques for solving 

 old problems, and for broadening the effective scope of the programs 

 beyond park land acquisition. 



The cost share for demonstration grants (as proposed for urban 

 beautification projects by the Housing Act of 1965 ) might go to 100 

 percent Federal. 



The States should have a hand in the planning for the new 

 suburbia. 



1 . Uses and values of open space are not affected by city, county, 

 or regional planning boundaries. 



2. Effective statewide planning (both comprehensive and func- 

 tional) is essential to developing an interregional, statewide, inter- 

 state, and national system of open space and outdoor recreation 

 resources. 



3. The Land and Water Fund requirement for statewide outdoor 

 recreation plans is proving a stimulus to statewide planning generally 

 and much State outdoor recreation planning is being done as an 

 element of 701 comprehensive planning programs. 



This stimulus to State planning is especially important to the 

 new suburbia, where jurisdictions are typically fragmented. 



Federal, State, and local governments should exploit the Land 

 and Water Fund planning requirement to strengthen State planning 

 programs generally. In open space-recreation planning and pro- 

 tection programs, the Federal Government should require States and 

 local governments to show evidence of coordination. 



As State planning performance improves, and as States become 

 more responsive to urban needs, we may be able to work out a 

 Federal-to-State-to-local relationship in planning and acquisition 

 without disadvantage to urban populations. 



Questions and Discussion 



CARL FEISS. Mr. Rouse said something that disturbed me a little. 

 I hate to disagree with you, but you mentioned the fact that beauty 

 comes free. 



Now, this may be true of natural beauty, but I don't think this is 

 the case of unnatural beauty and I have engaged competent urban 



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