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He said many communities made their master plan to satisfy the state requirements and then ignored it.
Local governments feel some resentment at having to make a master plan because they feel they get “all the responsibility and no authority,” Jacks said. But the same communities would not be happy if the state took responsibility for land use.
“Most localities already are jealous of their authority. They don’t want to lose any more of it to the state,” he said.
But the state is becoming more and more involved in local land-use planning.
“Most of the law regarding urban planning is implemented at the local level, but the state is becoming increasingly involved in policy setting for land-use planning and legislation,” he said.
Adjoining communities often choose land-use policies that cause conflict between them, and state planning could avoid this. But Jacks said he thought that the state would continue in the background. “With the present system
each locality can tailor its land-use process to its own problems. We need to get as much citizen input as possible.”
But whatever the method, communities should take serious steps to plan ahead their land-use policies, he said.
“Increased regulation of the use of land is going to be necessary," he said. “Land is not a private economic resource to be developed for profit. It's our most limited and most basic natural resource.”
Less State Interference
Attorney General Marshall Coleman a featured speaker at the seminar spoke out against increasing state involvement in local land use issues.
“I for one support minimal government interference with an individual’s use of his own
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