Show Beautifying Manti This is the second of a series of Three Articles by CHESTER H. H S SINK Writer Staff Utah Centennial Beautification Division A beautiful well-planned well city re requires requires requires re- re quires as much individual responsibility lity l- l ity as a 3 beautiful well-planned well home It cannot be allowed allo to develop and wander at will without resulting in waste rind nd poor environment Hundreds of Manti residents chorus We Ve know that is true but what can we do about a next door poor neighbor whose livestock corrals are arc built out outto outto outto to the sidewalk How can we eliminate a helter heIter fallen down barn and other otiler buildings near our town entrance that give the community an appearance of lacking in civic pride There is an answer to every community community community com com- problem to be found in a planning group and expert advice from froma a planning consultant Planning for Manti and other Sanpete Sanpete Sanpete San- San pete Valley communities does not nol mean one man dictating what shall shaH be built where and md how but a group of community citizens who with their fellow townsmen plan how they will build their own community as they want it for themselves and their I children It is not a technique for thinking up new and elaborate ways to spend money and increase taxes During a along along along long range period M Manti will spend a considerable city sum to improve I and modernize its structures and serI ser ser- ser ser- I vices The function of planning is to tomake make o sure the tho results Tl of nf these Co t ee- ee y n n accomplish their purpose as efficiently as possible and continue continue to do so for a long time The cost of planning is nothing more nor less than the annual budget of the community community community com com- planning agency The cost of not planning is harder to measure but it is enormously greater frequently I I exactly costs that cannot be measured on a cash basis I IA A stream of constructive energy is constantly being applied to expanding or repairing or improving the com com- The problem is to direct this energy toward harmonious rather than conflicting purposes Planning as any good business man manwill manwill manwill will agree is like honey in the bank It is the only way to run a business without waste a means menns of coordinating ing expenditures of the right and left hands without duplication of effort I and waste a o |