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Making capital improvements programs (ClP's) part of comprehensive plans is “the key to determining the future,” Raflo maintained.
He criticized “the erosion of the presumption of legislative validity" that has transferred land use controls from the localities to the courts. In the past, he said, it was presumed the decisions of local government arrived at after careful study were right until proven wrong. Now, in the area of land use and controlled growth, local government has to PROVE its decision to be right in the court room arena.
“That erosion of legislative validity is the most serious issue facing rural communities," he stated. Local governments need to be able to make decisions regarding the quality of life in their
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