January 10, 1962 (10 pages)

SACRAMENTO --California Tomorrow, a non-profit statewide organization, today issued a report which termed California's problems at the "crisis"stage and said the solutions are the responsibility and concern of of every resident of the state, The 64-page document, entitiled "California Going, Going..", was written by Alfred E, Heller, Nevada Souda we publisher and California T oromeo and Samuel E, Wood, Sacramento, conser~ vation and planning authority and director of the recently-formed group. The report details the various forces and pressures threatening California's “bright lands”, and points to two great defects in efforts to cope with the situations being caused by continuing population increase: lack of unified and coordinated planning at all levels of government, local, state and federal, and the fact that the problems in almost every instance outrun the jurisdictions of the many overlapping units of government. . Itnotes that “with growth problems that dwarf those in every other state, California The Past In Pictures ‘Timber’ last of six parts, by Jack Miner Icouldn't end this series without showing you another photograph of early California logging. I believe it was taken in aredwood forest onthe coast, or rather what was left of such a forest after a fire had destroyed it. The crew, I take it, is out to salvage as much of the almost indestructible redwood as possible. Isn*t that little, portable I guess you'd call it, donkey-engine hoisting something? I'll bet that once it was jimmied and eased into position it did a mighty job with those tremendour logs. Actually, I'dsay there are about fourteen men aiding it, though. What wouldn't one of those monster cats, with the assistance of only a couple of men, have done to that messy hill side? Mobil Gas CHUCK SMITH Auburn Hiway, Grass Valley Phone 273-6054 Team Members L. CUMMINS F. HOPE M. PELAYO C. ARBOGAST W. BUTEONSC HEN The UNION OIL “76” 149 Park Ave., Grass Valley phone 273-6925 Team Members D. SWENSON B. MAURICE D. SWENSON D. BANSAMER P. SWENSON spends less per capita on statewide physical and econmic planning than every other state, except Indiana, " Asa result, the report says, "the great state ‘action" agencies---such as the water, highway and recreation agencies---are free to act independently incarving up California's bright land because there is no state or regional coordinating policy, no general land development plan to guide them,” The report notes that although a state development plan has been authorized by the legislature since 1959, no money has been appropriated for it. “This is almost incomprehensible in light of the fact nia Growth At ‘Crisis’ Stage, Ror that California will spend some $55 billion on public works programs in the next 20 years, Can anyone ime agine a private coporation spending that sum without the guidance of a comprehensive plan to make every dollar count?" The report pointsto the State Division of Highways asa major example of “sin= gle agency” planning and its defects. Noting the high degree of efficiency within the division and its highly talented personnel, the report says: "Yet the division has been perpetually under fire, because in designing and locating freeways the division itself, lacking strong state policy direction, and sustained by the constitutionally provided gas tax fund, has too often failed to respect the plans of other agencies for the use of California lands; in building freeways it has too often failed to respect the legitimate economic interests of farmers and merchants and others of the California economic community; it has too often fatleato the aesthetie and. ill-effects of its "Some of the best examples of the state"s single interest, single agency method of the use of California lands may be found in the Highway Division's record of failure to coordinate its construction programs with park and recreation demands, , ,. The Division's attitude has helped California to delay for 20 years a worthwhileroadside rest program, although such a program has long had the backing of leg_ islative committees and public and private organizations throughout the state," The report criticizes the Division's “user benefit” formula, a ‘major factor in its method of choosing freeway routes, as inadequate beCause "plainly and simply it fails to take into account the full economic, social and aesthetic effects of freeWay routing, "T he motorist who may be able to drive ten miles an hour faster and save a pittance on yearly gasoline bills under the formula is not so happy after all when he sees a freeway reduce his town to aslum, orremove historical buildings, or deface a skyline, or defile a shore-line, or, in short, reduce community values." The report deals in similar fashion with the "singleagency” approach to planning employed by state water and recreation departments, and the various federal agencies working in land development within the state, Citing the need for greatly strengthening regional planning and regional government to back it up, the report comments: "As things stand, cities and counties do not have an effective way to deal with state agencies involving the location ofstate colleges and freeways and parks and water projects, " "If a city could express its land-use needs in cooperation with its neighbors, in terms of regional needs, the b state would be compelled to listen, andcould plan all its programs accordingly, " The report notes that some decisions now being made by * cities and counties, as well as decisions of federal and state agencies, “are not based on studies of the whole are involved in the problem.” ; The basic problem, the California Tomorrow report decalres, is this: “Inaccomodating our growing population, we must somehow maintainthe beauty and fertility of the land, its good water and its surrounding mantle of breathable air, upon which all Californias population must depend for prosperity and comfortable life. ”. The report emphasizes that “to do such a job we would have to make some basic decisions early in the game ---decisions not being made now and not even being seriously contemplated. "We would have to decide whereto locate our new urban areas, and how to contain, guide, and direct their growth, sothat they are confined to those lands best suited for urbangrowth, We might have to decide how big a given city should be, in order to sponsor healthy home life, healthy business -and industry, while protecting agriculture and the beauty of our countryside. We would have to decide to prepare and adopt comprehensive and coordinated land-use policies and plans for communities, regions, and the entire state. ( Continued on Page 4 ) Souvenirs Specimens CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FEDERAL SAVINGS and Loan Association MAXIMUM SECURITY Cwuvrent Rate Nh per annum ‘pune QUARTERLY 56 DODGE V8 55 PONTIAC V8 Sedan-Motor overhauled 55 FORD V8 Wagon-Motor overhauled 4D aa: oe 9595 *590 5495 55 PLYMOUTH V8 Belvedere Sedan 54 BUICK ROADMASTER $495 Sedan-All Power 54 CHEVROLET 6 $395 2 DSedan-R & H 53 STUDEBAKER PICK-UP—— 5395 5295 52 RAMBLER 6 Club Sedan-R & H-O.D. 53 CHEVROLET 6 4 D Sedan 295 53 PLYMOUTH 6 4D. Sedan— 595 295 53 CHEVROLET 6 Automatic"Asis Lt] *150 *150 53 FORD 6 Sedan-"As-is" 54 MERCURY Mechanics Special 52 PACKARD Sedan $125 MANY LATE MODELS IN STOCK Where Service Is Our Most Important Asset Selling and Serving CHRYSLER—PLYMOUTH VALIANT—RAMBLER GMC TRUCKS SEE US FORALL YOURAUTOMOTIVE NEED EARL COVEY’S : GARAGE GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA THIS WEEK WE SALUTE THE FORTY NINER LEAGUE and THE CENTENNIAL LEAGUE (WOMEN’S) Forty Niner League Nevada City Bottling Works L. EVA Washington Rd., Phone 265-2513 Nevada City Team Members B. GOUDGE F. POSE C. STULTING Y. TRAVIOLI Bergemann Chapel 246 Sacramento St., Nevada City phone 265-242] * Team Members M. ROATH A. DALE B. SWENSON A. DUCOTEY R. GLIKO The Centennial League (Women's) Fresh Up With Seven Up SEVEN UP BOTTLING CO. 126 B St., Marysville phone SH 2-1474 s Team Members B. SAHL M. PRISK G. CASSULO N. KNOX S’. ANGOVE andl IMPERIAL UPHOLSTERY 316 Colfax Ave., Grass Valley Phone 273-7374 Team Members J. OWENS 7. PIONTEK S. BETTS © C. HARRIS H. KNIGHT R. PAGE 133 Neal St., W. REMINGTON M. HEDRICH OMantys Cocklaitdounegt Grass Valley phone 265-9956 The OFFICE COCKTAIL LOUNGE and DINNER HOUSE FINE FOODS 102 Richardson z. Grass Valley Team Members H. LINDVALL C. MONTANARI H. HOWARD Hoover Brothers Chevron Station 102 E. Ridge Rd., Grass Valley phone 273-9863 * Team Members H. HOOVER F. STARK V. PEGAR M. THOMAS CAFFEY & RICE Gold Flat Rd., Nevada City phone 265-2522 Team Members E. CARR D. RICE S. CICOGNI D. CHENOWETH J. CAFFEY is en en en ane a i NN ee oe ba ue

SACRAMENTO --California Tomorrow, a non-profit statewide organization, today issued a report which termed California's problems at the "crisis"stage and said the solutions are the responsibility and concern of of every resident of the state, The 64-page document, entitiled "California Going, Going...", was written by Alfred E, Heller, Nevada Souda we publisher and California T oromeo and Samuel E, Wood, Sacramento, conser~ vation and planning authority and director of the recently-formed group. The report details the various forces and pressures threatening California's “bright lands”, and points to two great defects in efforts to cope with the situations being caused by continuing population increase: lack of unified and coordinated planning at all levels of government, local, state and federal, and the fact that the problems in almost every instance outrun the jurisdictions of the many overlapping units of government. . Itnotes that “with growth problems that dwarf those in every other state, California The Past In Pictures ‘Timber’ last of six parts, by Jack Miner Icouldn't end this series without showing you another photograph of early California logging. I believe it was taken in aredwood forest onthe coast, or rather what was left of such a forest after a fire had destroyed it. The crew, I take it, is out to salvage as much of the almost indestructible redwood as possible. Isn*t that little, portable I guess you'd call it, donkey-engine hoisting something? I'll bet that once it was jimmied and eased into position it did a mighty job with those tremendour logs. Actually, I'dsay there are about fourteen men aiding it, though. What wouldn't one of those monster cats, with the assistance of only a couple of men, have done to that messy hill side? Mobil Gas CHUCK SMITH Auburn Hiway, Grass Valley Phone 273-6054 Team Members L. CUMMINS F.. HOPE M. PELAYO C. ARBOGAST W. BUTEONSC HEN The UNION OIL “76” 149 Park Ave., Grass Valley phone 273-6925 Team Members D. SWENSON B. MAURICE D. SWENSON D. BANSAMER P. SWENSON spends less per capita on statewide physical and econmic planning than every other state, except Indiana, " Asa result, the report says, "the great state ‘action" agencies---such as the water, highway and recreation agencies---are free to act independently incarving up California's bright land because there is no state or regional coordinating policy, no general land development plan to guide them,” The report notes that although a state development plan has been authorized by the legislature since 1959, no money has been appropriated for it. “This is almost incomprehensible in light of the fact nia Growth At ‘Crisis’ Stage, Ror that California will spend some $55 billion on public works programs in the next 20 years, Can anyone ime agine a private coporation spending that sum without the guidance of a comprehensive plan to make every dollar count?" The report pointsto the State Division of Highways asa major example of “sin= gle agency” planning and its defects. Noting the high degree of efficiency within the division and its highly talented personnel, the report says: "Yet the division has been perpetually under fire, because in designing and locating freeways the division itself, lacking strong state policy direction, and sustained by the constitutionally provided gas tax fund, has too often failed to respect the plans of other agencies for the use of California lands; in building freeways it has too often failed to respect the legitimate economic interests of farmers and merchants and others of the California economic community; it has too often fatleato the aesthetie and. ill-effects of its "Some of the best examples of the state"s single interest, single agency method of the use of California lands may be found in the Highway Division's record of failure to coordinate its construction programs with park and recreation demands, , ,. The Division's attitude has helped California to delay for 20 years a worthwhileroadside rest program, although such a program has long had the backing of leg_ islative committees and public and private organizations throughout the state," The report criticizes the Division's “user benefit” formula, a ‘major factor in its method of choosing freeway routes, as inadequate beCause "plainly and simply it fails to take into account the full economic, social and aesthetic effects of freeWay routing, "T he motorist who may be able to drive ten miles an hour faster and save a pittance on yearly gasoline bills under the formula is not so happy after all when he sees a freeway reduce his town to aslum, orremove historical buildings, or deface a skyline, or defile a shore-line, or, in short, reduce community values." The report deals in similar fashion with the "singleagency” approach to planning employed by state water and recreation departments, and the various federal agencies working in land development within the state, Citing the need for greatly strengthening regional planning and regional government to back it up, the report comments: "As things stand, cities and counties do not have an effective way to deal with state agencies involving the location ofstate colleges and freeways and parks and water projects, " "If a city could express its land-use needs in cooperation with its neighbors, in terms of regional needs, the b state would be compelled to listen, andcould plan all its programs accordingly, " The report notes that some decisions now being made by * cities and counties, as well as decisions of federal and state agencies, “are not based on studies of the whole are involved in the problem.” ; The basic problem, the California Tomorrow report decalres, is this: “Inaccomodating our

growing population, we must somehow maintainthe beauty and fertility of the land, its good water and its surrounding mantle of breathable air, upon which all Californias population must depend for prosperity and comfortable life. ”. The report emphasizes that “to do such a job we would have to make some basic decisions early in the game ---decisions not being made now and not even being seriously contemplated. "We would have to decide whereto locate our new urban areas, and how to contain, guide, and direct their growth, sothat they are confined to those lands best suited for urbangrowth, We might have to decide how big a given city should be, in order to sponsor healthy home life, healthy business -and industry, while protecting agriculture and the beauty of our countryside. We would have to decide to prepare and adopt comprehensive and coordinated land-use policies and plans for communities, regions, and the entire state. ( Continued on Page 4 ) Souvenirs Specimens CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FEDERAL SAVINGS and Loan Association MAXIMUM SECURITY Cwuvrent Rate Nh per annum ‘pune QUARTERLY 56 DODGE V8 55 PONTIAC V8 Sedan-Motor overhauled 55 FORD V8 Wagon-Motor overhauled 4D aa: oe 9595 *590 5495 55 PLYMOUTH V8 Belvedere Sedan 54 BUICK ROADMASTER $495 Sedan-All Power 54 CHEVROLET 6 $395 2 DSedan-R & H 53 STUDEBAKER PICK-UP—— 5395 5295 52 RAMBLER 6 Club Sedan-R & H-O.D. 53 CHEVROLET 6 4 D Sedan 295 53 PLYMOUTH 6 4D. Sedan— 595 295 53 CHEVROLET 6 Automatic"Asis Lt] *150 *150 53 FORD 6 Sedan-"As-is" 54 MERCURY Mechanics Special 52 PACKARD Sedan $125 MANY LATE MODELS IN STOCK Where Service Is Our Most Important Asset Selling and Serving CHRYSLER—PLYMOUTH VALIANT—RAMBLER GMC TRUCKS SEE US FORALL YOURAUTOMOTIVE NEED EARL COVEY’S : GARAGE GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA THIS WEEK WE SALUTE THE FORTY NINER LEAGUE and THE CENTENNIAL LEAGUE (WOMEN’S) Forty Niner League Nevada City Bottling Works L. EVA Washington Rd., Phone 265-2513 Nevada City Team Members B. GOUDGE F. POSE C. STULTING Y. TRAVIOLI Bergemann Chapel 246 Sacramento St., Nevada City phone 265-242] * Team Members M. ROATH A. DALE B. SWENSON A. DUCOTEY R. GLIKO The Centennial League (Women's) Fresh Up With Seven Up SEVEN UP BOTTLING CO. 126 B St., Marysville phone SH 2-1474 s Team Members B. SAHL M. PRISK G. CASSULO N. KNOX S’. ANGOVE andl IMPERIAL UPHOLSTERY 316 Colfax Ave., Grass Valley Phone 273-7374 Team Members J. OWENS 7. PIONTEK S. BETTS © C. HARRIS H. KNIGHT R. PAGE 133 Neal St., W. REMINGTON M. HEDRICH OMantys Cocklaitdounegt Grass Valley phone 265-9956 The OFFICE COCKTAIL LOUNGE and DINNER HOUSE FINE FOODS 102 Richardson z. Grass Valley Team Members H. LINDVALL C. MONTANARI H. HOWARD Hoover Brothers Chevron Station 102 E. Ridge Rd., Grass Valley phone 273-9863 * Team Members H. HOOVER F. STARK V. PEGAR M.. THOMAS CAFFEY & RICE Gold Flat Rd., Nevada City phone 265-2522 Team Members E. CARR D. RICE S. CICOGNI D. CHENOWETH J. CAFFEY is en en en ane a i NN ee oe ba ue