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major generating stations will require some 140,000 acres of prime indus- 
trial sites. 
“In short,’ Jackson said, “between now and the year 2000, we must 
build again all that we have built before. We must duplicate in three 
decades what has taken us three centuries to construct—a new home, 
school, hospital, office building for every one now in existence. This can- 
not be done in an orderly and rational manner unless a national land use 
policy is developed to provide guidance with respect to what is to be 
saved and lost in the major transformation which lies ahead.” 
Jackson said that there have been two major innovative periods in the 
nation’s development of land use policies. The focus of the first was the 
public lands and the enactment of laws which were largely designed to 
facilitate the opening of the West and to give economic impetus to the 
development of resources, agriculture and the family farm. 
The second emerged at the end of the first quarter of this century 
when many states adopted the Standard City Planning Enabling Act and 
the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act prepared by the Department of 
Commerce. These statutes enabled local governments to develop institu- 
tions and procedures for regulating private land use in the larger interests 
of public health, welfare and safety. 
“Today, however, the ‘land ethic’, the goals, the institutions, and the 
legal mechanisms which generated these two major sets of policy for land 
use management and planning are no longer responsive to the growing 
requirements and changing values of modern technological society. 
“Land can no longer be treated as an unlimited resource,’ Jackson 
said. “Today land is one of our most finite resources. How the land use 
conflicts of today are resolved will shape our national destiny for decades 
to come. If we are to truly weigh and balance competing economic, social 
and environmental goals in the years ahead, land must be viewed not as 
a commodity to be bought, sold, and consumed, but as a finite resource 
which must be managed in the interests of future generations.” 
This new view of national requirements and changing values is re- 
flected in the innovative legislation of recent years being adopted or con- 
sidered by a number of States and in the numerous land use proposals 
before Congress. According to Senator Jackson, the Land Use Policy and 
Planning Assistance Act, which he proposes, would establish a framework 
and provide the resources to further encourage state and local governments 
to formulate coherent, balanced policies toward land use and the design of 
America’s future. 
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Fresh water or salt, 
halcyon’s your fitting name— 
fisher without fault. 
— Joe Dvorak 
