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are becoming aware of what has happened to once lovely and serene communities, and who are determined to arrest the dreadful trend which has created such frightful sights— even turn the process around, if possible. Too often, however, they lament that this country lacks sufficient laws to do what is needed.
Nonsense. It’s got plenty of laws; more than enough to do anything in the way of public planning that is required, says Professor Stipe. It’s a point he’s made to local Supervisors and planning officials ever since the first planning workshop to England several years ago. All that is lacking, he says, is a resolve on the part of elected - public officials in America to actually use the power they’ve already got.
Public opinion is the key. Once the politicians are convinced that the public is behind them, they’ll take what action is necessary to halt the rape of our landscape— and our townscapes—and help retain the beauty and harmony, both natural and man-made, that once was more commonplace in this country.
YOU’RE the public. Let those officials know that you want something better for you and your family than corridors of blatant commercialism as a place in which to live. Let them know you like parks and trees and open space and quiet streets and a channelling of motor traffic where it belongs, and not throughneighborhoods and at the expense of rolling farmland.
Let them know, and then maybe they’ll do something about it. □
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