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<br />Longer-term programs do not urge any dramatic developmental or environmental <br />schemes, but rather stress the rll/lctiollS Ih.l1 will orgai1ize, regu,"ri7.e, and support ongoing <br />planniug processes to attain policy goals. Both interim and long-term strategies demand <br />close cooperation and coordination with federal, regional, and local jurisdictions vertically <br />and with sister State agencies horizontally, if the delivery system is to work effectively <br />and at modest internal costs. Without inter-jurisdictional cooperation, the requisite data <br />will .be inadequate as a base for legislation, plans, programs, and operations. <br /> <br />Social Concerns 1 4 <br /> <br />The Commission recognizes quite clearly-and urges all State, regional and municipal <br />agencies involved in land-use regulation to do likewise-that both private market forces <br />and land-use controls may have profound if unintended social impacts. These impacts <br />must be anticipated by positive corrective action. Zoning laws have in the past had the <br />effect of excluding from certain areas pelople of modest means.. Rising land values also <br />have exclusionary effects: in the Inountain resort areas, workers cannot ~fford to live <br />near their places of employment. The imposition of environmental controls, bylimiting.. <br />or prohibiting certain kinds of commercial and in.dustrial activity, may alt~r established . <br />patterns of employment and cultu.re. To campen.sate for such effects, programs to <br />assuJ.e access for all citizens to public areas, provide low-cost housing, relocation assistance, <br />and alternative employment opportunity arc needed. Also needed are .mea,ures to ease <br />the dilemma of small landholders caught between static incomes and rising property tax <br />rates. <br /> <br />ORGANIZATION FOR HJlPLEMENTATIONl5 <br /> <br />The Commission's program recommendations rcquire a carefully structured organization <br />and implementation process, or "delivery system." However, a large and elaborate new State <br />organization is not necessary, and would probably require a long time to implement. <br />Therefore, the Commission's recommendations for organization and implementation are. <br />based on these policies: . <br /> <br />e Local and regional influence over land-use programs should be strong. <br />Land-use decisions ~hould be made at the lowest level of government lhat <br />has the stafr and budget capacity to carry them out.16 <br /> <br />14for full discu~sioll. See CIt:tpkr VrI. <br /> <br />ISfor full discus.<;ion. see ChJ.pter IX. <br /> <br />- 16CRS eh. 106. "Arl 4, ~ 3. ~ I(b): ';In dC'\'clopin~ irs land use pbnning: program, the (,oll\mi<;~ion shaH recc>gnize tha.t the <br />dcci.sion.making: ;lulhoriry as 10 the ChilIJcter and use oi bnl! shaU be at the 10\\lest level of government possible, <br />_ _. consistent \\ith lhe p~]rposes of th.is ar~i.c1~:' See :lIso foNnote 10 above. <br /> <br />xviii <br /> <br />'3008 <br />