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Responsibility for planning and implementation has to be shared 
among all levels of government.” Planning would include (1) the 
completion of a state wide urban development plan, (2) completion 
of area-wide development plans by regional planning agencies, (3) 
acceptance of regional plans by state and local public bodies, (4) 
widespread dissemination of the plan throughout the region. Imple- 
mentation of a new community development program would require: 
1. Review of all public and private actions of regional im- 
portance for consistency with area-wide plan. 
2. Utilization of public works, public facility and transporta- 
tion planning to structure and direct growth. 
3. Complementary use of land use controls and regulatory 
mechanisms with public works and facility programming and 
development. 
a Coordination of tax and assessment policies with area-wide 
ans. 
5. Regional review of those federal programs (implemented by 
the public and private sectors) affecting the regional development 
pattern. 
6. Creation by the state of a state development corporation 
or new community development districts empowered to coordinate 
and regulate public and private development actions to insure the 
development of balanced new communities. 
7. Encouragement of private participation in new community 
development through the selected and careful application of land 
use controls, public provision of water and sewer facilities, as 
well as transportation. 
8. Immediate acquisition of strategic high potential growth 
areas by existing state agencies or new instrumentalities. 
9. Reservation of land intended for future development 
through the combined use of low intensity zoning, control and 
development rights, compensatory zoning, and the programming 
of public facilities and improvements. 
The present land use planning and regulatory system fails to protect 
adequately the interests and issues which transcend local governmental 
boundaries. In addition, in most instances they are not sufficiently 
strong nor sufficiently flexible to permit and sustain the planned 
development of a new large scale community. To rectify this, it has 
been suggested that a state planning and review agency be created to 
promote and protect extra-local interests and resolve disputes.” The 
state should assume an active role in applying land use guidance and 
control techniques in an effort to insure the successful development of 
new communities. The state agency should have the authority to 
(1) prepare and effectuate state and regional land use policies and 
plans,?® (2) review local plans and ordinances for compliance with 
state legislation and state plans and policies,”® and (3) directly regulate 
the use of land and public facilities in those areas in which there is a 
state-wide interest.*” 
2 [bid., p. 56. 
: Pesos op. cit., p. 46. 
2% See the American Law Institute, A Model Land Development Code, Tentative Draft No. 1 (Philadelphia: 
American Law Institute), 1968. 
3° See New Directions in Connecticut Planning Legislation, (Chicago: American Institute of Planning 
Officials), 1967. 
