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001169 2 A Place for the Area Planning Organizations The work ~roups which conducted the Type I Framework studies inadequately treated with the urban areas, which comprise less than two percent of the Pacific Southwest. About 80 percent of the people of the Pacific Southwest, however, live and struggle with the problems of maintaining a satisfactory environment within these urban areas. The Department of Housing and Urban Development endeavors to coordinate planning within the metropolitan regions through area planning organizations (APOs). The APOs were not called upon to participate in the Type I Framework studies, In the continuing reassessment of water and related, land uses in the Pacific Southwest, HUn proposes that the APOs be drawn into the planning processes, As resource margins progressively are narrowed in the future, demands for water and related land resources will impinge ever more sharply on urbanizing areas. Plans and programs that do not relate adequately to urban needs will be in danger of being rejected by the urban areas. To increase the acceptability of comparable planning in the future, the APOs should participate in research into urban water and related land management problems. Among these problems are (1) methods of reducing within urban areas the trends to increase the average daily per capita uses of water and of power, (2) flood plain zoning, (3) canni- balization of prime irrigated agricultural lands through urban sprawl, and (4) the provision of recreational opportunities and open space. In the future planning conducted by PSIAC, the APOs should be facilitated by BUD so that they may respond effectively to invitations to participate in the appropriate task forces and work groups. In view of many developments during the period since 1965 while the Framework studies were underway, the first periodic review and restate- ment of the Framework plan and program for the Pacific Southwest should be started now. The National assessment proposed to be completed in 1975 by the Water Resources Council might serve as the appropriate vehicle for such a review. Soaring Per Capita Daily Water Uses In the discussion of alternatives, the Analytical Summary noted that the average daily use rate per capita of municipal water in the Pacific Southwest is forecast to increase from 149 gallons in 1965 to 192 gallons in 2020. If the rate could be made to remain constant at the 1965 level, 17.8 million more people could be served with the water that will otherwise be needed to meet the increase in daily use EXHIBIT D