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Show nofewcriliy approach We like the approach being taken in Moab and 'Crawl county by Planning Research Associates of Salt Lake City the firm now under contract to complete Ihc first comprehensive master project for the city and county at the same time. Unlike- some other planning agencies, this firm jippcnrs to pliice a pood deal of importance on citizen involvement during the early stages of the plnaning phase. In other words, rather than having an expert come into a community and determine through his own professional experience and likes and dislikes what should be done- in the future, this firm believes the people themselves should indicate in detail what they would like to see their community and county become in the future. After those recommendations have been made, then the experts will apply their professional criteria to the problem to bring out a master plan, based not only on sound professional standards, but to a great degree, on what people really real-ly want in their own town. Presently, four major committees are meeting in "brainstorming" sessions to resolve certain given questions -in their assigned fields of study. One committee com-mittee is studying Grand county development in gen- eral, one is studying theunique and serious planning i problems in Spanish Valley; a third is studing Moab ! City in general, while a fourth is working on plan- ning recommendations for the Moab City business dis-i dis-i trict. ; This. Friday, preliminary reports will be made by i committee chairmen at a general meeting to be at-! at-! tended by members of all four committees. After hear-i hear-i iv.g comments from others outside their own commit-! commit-! tees, and gaining comments from other townspeople, : the recommendations will be refined for final submis-' sion in the middle of October. From that point, it is j pretty 'much up to the experts but from what we have seen and heard from members of the four com-, j mittees the expertss will have a mountain of worth-! worth-! while study to guide their efforts. As we said before, we like the approach. We feel : that the city and county can't help but come out of 1 it with a good master plan. |