WSP00202

• File Number: 8059
• Description: Section D General Studies-State Water Plan
• State: CO
• Date: 10/1/1973
• Author: James Nathan Miller
• Title: Land Use Planning-Readers Digest-Condensed from The National Civic Review-Hawaiis Quiet Revolution Hits the Mainland
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Condenud from ~ATIO:\'AL CIVIC REVIEW
JA~IES N.HIIAN J\lIl.LER

IVe've been squandering land at an appalling rate,
building helter-skelter without regard to con-
sequences, Hawaii has pioneered a better way, and
the whole country could benefit by her example

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O. ': ALL the states of the Union, could clo more to save the face of
r the last you'd expect to be the U.S. cOlllltrysid<: tkm JII (he
spc<1rheadillg a revolution is environmental laws yet passed. H:.=re
the littk hcoch-and-pineapple king, is why.
dam of Hawaii. But in I9G1 the The environment:..il laws of the
Hawaii legisbture passed into law last decade have done rebtivcly lit~
an idea so new ~1I1d f.1r-reaching in de to preserve our most precious
its implications that it set in motion resource, the hind. They have dealt
what has been called a "quiet revoll1- ::llmost exclusively with the polll1-
tion:'TodaYl as the new idea spreads tion of Jie and water and with the
throughout the mainhH1d, it prom- .nanagemcnt of federal bnd hold~
iscs to generate olle of [he loudest ings-all publicly m\'llcd. They have
political battles o[ the 19705. left virtually llnregl1lated th:lt sacro-
Vcry simply, what l-bwaii's law sallct 73.7 percent of the contiguolls
docs is to take a concept that has 48 states that is pritJately owned.
been sacred for 300 yC<lrs of Ameri- And it is the shortsighted, oppor~
can history-the idea that privJtely tunistic development of this 73-7
oWlleo land is a commodity-and percent th<lt poses the biggest, [15[-
slIperill1pose on it a new concept: est-growing thre<lt to the tlHure of
~ rrivJtc\y owned bnd is also our environment.
a Pllblic resourcc. Jrls an idea th:lt How b;ldly are we [r{"<lting our
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