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Show Long Range Planning Insures City Against Errors Of The Past By Chester H. Spink Staff-Writer-Photographer Utah Centennial Beautificatipn Division What is there in planning for Roosevelt? Will it mean a better life, a safer life, now and in the future? Appointment of a planning commission would certainly not result in a change overnight. Roosevelt is growing and changing chang-ing almost from day to day, as do all cities and communities, in response to diverse, uncoordinated uncoordinat-ed forces. It is because of these uncoordinated forces that city development de-velopment should follow a well thought-out , pattern to bring these changes about. To correct the mistakes of the past and realize future hopes requires foresight and time. Long-range goals must be adopted adop-ted and achieved by guiding the public and private expenditures year by year on new building, replacement and repair. Planning is not "big city" technique exclusively. It has a definite place in a community the size of Roosevelt. Planning intelligently for the future on a sound basis applies to homes and neighborhoods, towns and cities, states and nations. It is not one man dictating what shall be built where and 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 children, Neither Is It a technique for thinking up new and elaborate ways to spend money and Increase In-crease taxes. During a long range period, Roosevelt will spend a considerable city sum to improve and modernize its structures and services. The function of planning Is to mako sure the results of these expenditures expen-ditures accomplish their purpose as efficiently as possible and continue to do so for a long time. The cost of planning is nothing noth-ing more nor less than the annual an-nual budget of the community planning agency. The cost of npt planning is harder tp measure, mea-sure, but it is enormqusly greater, frequently exacting costs that cannot be measured" pn a' cash basi3, A community planning agency in Roosevelt would be a group of civic minded citizens, repre senting the town, working with a trained city planner who would advise them on ways of eliminating such eyesores as vacant va-cant lots in the business district; unpaintcd and poorly maintained maintain-ed business structures, unsightly unsight-ly buildings, that blight the overall over-all appearance of the town. It would mean proper planning for a city park, how to design the most efficient area at a low cost and maintenance. It would mean planned beautification that would attract more and more tourist dollars into the community, commun-ity, a fine community spirit, a healthier environment for Roosevelt's Roos-evelt's children and a more eco nomical expenditure of city tax funds. Planning for Roosevelt, a master mas-ter plan now, means systematic correction of present faults before be-fore they go beyond control, and preventing further unwise de velopmcnts before they exist. It is an over-all program that will benefit spiritually, physically and financially every citizen of this generation and those generations gener-ations yet to come, A long range planning program, pro-gram, as any good business man will agree, is like money in the bank. It is the only way to run a business without waste, a means of coordinating expenditures expendi-tures of the right and left hands, without duplication of effort, and waste. |