Role of the Federal Government in Metropolitan Areas: Hearings ... 87-2 ... December 13, 14, 1962

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Page 6 - ... municipalities or other political subdivisions, to encourage planning on a unified metropolitan basis and to provide technical assistance for such planning and the solution of problems relating thereto.
Page 15 - Management recommended the establishment of a permanent planning agency "to serve as a clearing house of planning interests and concerns in the national effort to prevent waste and to improve our national standard of living ;" and "to cooperate with departmental, State, and local agencies and in general to use the Board's good offices to see that planning decisions are not made by one group in ignorance of relevant undertakings or research going on elsewhere.
Page 39 - President in the budget of the United States Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969. The bill would authorize appropriations to be made to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the sum of $4,370,400,000, as follows: (1) for "Research and development...
Page 6 - In order to assist State and local governments in solving planning problems resulting from the increasing concentration of population in metropolitan and other urban areas...
Page 6 - Planning assisted under this section shall, to the maximum extent feasible, cover entire urban areas having common or related urban development problems. The Administrator shall encourage cooperation in preparing and carrying out plans among all interested municipalities, political subdivisions, public agencies, and other parties in order to achieve coordinated development of entire areas. To the maximum extent feasible...
Page 12 - This provision stemmed from the report of the President's Advisory Committee on Government Housing Policies and Programs, issued in December 1953, which emphasized that the Federal Government should do everything possible to insure that the aid provided "will actually do the job intended and that it will cover the maximum ground." This legal requirement has obviously motivated communities with urban renewal and public housing needs to do the kind of planning jobs that are recommended herein for metropolitan...
Page 7 - Administrator may require such assurances as he deems adequate that the appropriate State and local agencies are making reasonable progress in the development of the elements of comprehensive planning.
Page 12 - ... the newspapers of a Federal grant for a hospital, sewage treatment plant or other large physical facility in a neighboring subdivision. Quite often recriminations follow regarding the need for improved interchange of information and for improved coordination in planning for governmental facilities in the metropolitan area. The Commission believes that considerations of economy alone, in addition to all of the other factors mentioned in this report, demand a firm requirement for full exchange...
Page 2 - The 212 areas recognized as metropolitan in 1960 accounted for 84 percent of all the increase in the Nation's population during the 1950-60 decade. For these areas, the growth was 23.6 million persons...
Page 37 - New Mexico, New York, North Carolina. North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma. Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington.

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