REPORTS OF THE PANEL CHAIRMEN 663 



ing are recommendations toward directing the quantitative growth 

 of the new suburbia toward qualitative results. 



1. A statement of national policy that the conservation of the 

 natural resources and amenities of the urban environment is a matter 

 of national concern ; and that it is the policy of this Nation that the 

 urban environment should be habitable, productive, and durable. 



2. Encouragement of metropolitan regional planning as a necessary 

 basis of economic, human, and environmental development. Locali- 

 ties need more and better information on Federal programs. Federal 

 grants and loans might be withheld from localities until it is estab- 

 lished that their request is based on a comprehensive metropolitan 

 plan. 



3. Federal agencies should facilitate the fullest and most effective 

 application of existing programs to encourage private entrepreneurial 

 development of new communities meeting acceptable standards. 



4. There is a broad need for education in metropolitan area geog- 

 raphy and economics so that the metropolitan population under- 

 stands the dynamics, the potential, and the natural resources of its 

 environment. 



5. There is a need for State and regional policy on protection and 

 wide use of natural resources and amenities as the basis of the 

 shaping and developing of the new suburbia. States should be 

 encouraged in the development of comprehensive natural resource 

 and environmental quality planning. 



6. Design of the suburbia should be varied and contain a full 

 range of communal facilities and a wide range of housing types and 

 densities to satisfy the varied social, economic, and human needs. 



Federal programs which might assist in implementing some of 

 these recommendations : 



1. Mortgage insurance for private land development consistent 

 with planning requirements. 



2. Loans to State and local development agencies. 



3. Grants to local governments for basic water and sewer facilities, 

 and for advance acquisition of land for sewer facilities. 



4. Strengthening of both major Federal programs of assistance 

 for open space acquisition and protection in urban areas, and ap- 

 propriations for demonstration grants to stimulate innovations in 

 techniques other than for simple acquisition. 



5. Enactment of legislation to encourage comprehensive regional 

 planning with provision to withdraw Federal aid where such plan- 

 ning is not in process. 



