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in taking care of the suburbs and the new suburbia ideas, but I 

 think one thing that could be recommended from this conference 

 is that we, as a Nation, experiment in building a new city such as 

 Washington was built. Let us sit down and really put some of the 

 sophistication, some of the new knowledge that we have, into work- 

 ing on a new city some place in the United States or several places 

 in the United States. Perhaps then we will take a little bit of the 

 load off the suburban sprawl, we will take a little bit of the load out 

 of the crush that is coming to the cities, and at the same time perhaps 

 come up with a model of a true and magnificent 20th century city. 



Mr. SASAKI. It would be wonderful. 



A DELEGATE. I would like to comment on the automobile situ- 

 ation which the gentleman referred to. 



Delaware has and has had a law for something like 15 to 20 years 

 requiring all junk dealers to have a fence in front of their place to 

 hide the ugliness of these junkyards. In most cases, it is a very at- 

 tractive fence. 



Anybody interested may write to Delaware including those from 

 such States as California where they are always complaining about 

 the things they have and the problems they have. Let them write to 

 the small State for advice. 



LAURENCE AURBACH. We in local government have a problem in 

 educating lending institutions. In Santa Clara County we have 

 ordinances for planned residential communities which provide for 

 mixed uses and cluster developments. 



We have had a great deal of difficulty in selling this concept in the 

 community because of the lethargy, apathy, and inertia of local 

 lending institutions. 



I would like to suggest this panel ask the appropriate agencies of 

 the Federal Government to take the initiative in educating lending 

 institutions to help local government sell the concept of planned 

 development. 



A DELEGATE. I would like to comment on Mr. Sasaki's recom- 

 mendation of when in doubt, plant, and make an additional observa- 

 tion to the discussions of yesterday which considered setting a goal of 

 some 100 million or 10 million big trees for our cities. 



We do now have technology in the form of new power, hydraulic 

 power for large tree removal. Technically, large trees can be rap- 

 idly brought into our older suburbs en masse and using plant stock 



