Show benefit to community in attractive roadway beautiful and attractive roadways road rond wais was add immeasurably to the ot of a locality ot of homes grover oneill ONel ll chairman of the road pIdd committee ot the long isla island nd chamber of commerce told the members of the chamber at their annual meeting the commercialization of our arterial highways it was p pointed hinted out will defeat our major objective by slowing blowing up traffic and making makine our entire residential environment unattractive there should be he explained a concentration of our bu business activity to established business centers or those places which a comprehensive plan indicates to be in the public interest in the business areas themselves we should endeavor to make these as attractive as possible unless we are prepared to di discipline e ourselves as a community to in order to achieve our greatest goal our growth will be seriously retarded and our communities will not be tied in to the metropolitan development but will remain isolated and local TO obtain roadside attractiveness we must secure the operation cooperation co of the property owner find and in this we are confronted with the character of the owner as to whether he will operate cooperate co tor for the improvement of his community or remain entirely selfish we must also arouse public opinion in favor of roadside attractiveness to the point of 0 action suitable legislation should also be obtained to bring the state and county into a position to do their full share toward creating and maintaining road roadside sido attentiveness |