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concept began to emerge as the one strategy which best accommodated 
the political and legal problems posed by home rule considerations. 
To get a clearer picture of how the development district will accomplish 
these tasks we now turn to the statute which spells out the inter- 
relationships anticipated between public development and _ local 
government. 
(Eprror’s Notn.—Mr. Browning thoroughly develops and presents 
the statute in his paper.) 
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