NATIONAL GROWTH POLICY PART 1 HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HOUSING OF THE COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON NATIONAL GROWTH POLICY 81-745 O JUNE 6 AND 7, 1972 Printed for the use of the Committee on Banking and Currency U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1972 COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY WRIGHT PATMAN, Texas, Chairman WILLIAM A. BARRETT, Pennsylvania HENRY S. REUSS, Wisconsin WILLIAM S. MOORHEAD, Pennsylvania WILLIAM B. WIDNALL, New Jersey LAWRENCE G. WILLIAMS, Pennsylvania MARGARET M. HECKLER, Massachusetts PHILIP M. CRANE, Illinois JOHN H. ROUSSELOT, California STEWART B. MCKINNEY, Connecticut BILL ARCHER, Texas BILL FRENZEL, Minnesota CONTENTS Boley, Robert E., executive director, Urban Land Institute__ Davis, Arthur A., vice president for operations of the Conservation Foun- Drachman, Roy P., president, Urban Land Institute.. Haga, Thomas H., director-coordinator, Genesee County, Mich., on behalf of the National Association of Counties, accompanied by Donald J. Krapohl, member, Genesee County Metropolitan Planning Commission__ Krapohl, Donald J., member of the Genesee County Metropolitan Plan- ning Commission, Flint, Mich.; supervisor of Mount Morris (Mich.) Mineta, Hon. Norman Y., mayor, city of San Jose, Calif., on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities-‒‒‒‒ Rabinowitz, Alan, professor, University of Washington, Seattle, on behalf of the American Institute of Planners, accompanied by Albert L. Mas- soni, director of national affairs, American Institute of Planners___ Rockefeller, John D., III, chairman, Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, accompanied by Robert Parke, Jr., and Carol T. Rogers, Archibald C., vice president, American Institute of Architects and chairman, AIA National Policy Task Force, accompanied by Van B. Bruner, Jr., AIA; Jaquelin Robertson, AIA; William L. Slayton, honor- ary AIA; and Michael B. Barker, director of urban programs and staff Waranch, Stanley, president, National Association of Home Builders, accompanied by Herbert Colton, general counsel; and Carl A. S. Coan, Jr., staff vice president and legislative counsel--- Walsh, Albert A., president, National Association of Housing and Redevel- Statement on behalf by Archibald C. Rogers, vice president__ 487 Statement on behalf by Prof. Alan Rabinowitz, University of Wash- 375 Bain, L. Dixon, Jr., urban affairs consultant, Cambridge, Mass., statement 550 Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C., statement on behalf by Arthur Gappert, Gary, economist, Urban Affairs Department, University of Wis- consin-Milwaukee, statement with attachments entitled, "Ten Proposi- Letter from Hon. George Romney, Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development, on sections 235 and 236 housing programs in Beecher School District, Flint, Mich., dated May 25, 1971. Supplemental statement__ 536 "Alternative Growth Strategies for San Jose: Initial Report of the Rand Urban Policy Analysis Project," document prepared for the National Science Foundation, dated October 1971__. Rand Urban Policy Program: Strategy for Selection of Cities," docu- ment prepared for the National Science Foundation, dated Octo- "Urban Development Policies," city of San Jose, Calif., document Submission of maps: Incorporated area, city of San Jose (Calif.) April 1972, growth Incorporated areas of Santa Clara County, January 1969- 117 106, 107 109 National Association of Counties, statement on behalf by Thomas H. Haga, director-coordinator, Genesee County (Mich.) Metropolitan Planning National Association of Home Builders: Statement of Policy for 1972---- Statement on behalf by Stanley Waranch, president_. National Association of Housing & Redevelopment Officials: Program Policy Resolution-1971-73_ Statement on behalf by Albert A. Walsh, president--- Rabinowitz, Prof. Alan: Position statement of the American Institute of Planners on President 418 385 Prepared statement___ 380 U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities, statement on behalf by Hon. Norman Y. Mineta, mayor, city of San Jose, Calif___ Walsh, Albert A., prepared statement with attached section from NAHRO Program Policy Resolution-1971-73, dealing with urban growth and 403 Waranch, Stanley, submission of the National Association of Home Build- Ybarra, Jack, president, Confederacion de la Raza, San Jose, Calif., state- Incorporated areas of Santa Clara County, Calif., January 1969--‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒ 109 NATIONAL GROWTH POLICY TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1972 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10:20 a.m., in room 2128, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. William A. Barrett (chairman of the subcommittee), presiding. Present: Representatives Barrett, Sullivan, Ashley, Stephens, St Germain, Gonzalez, Minish, Widnall, Brown, and Heckler. Mr. BARRETT. The hearing will come to order please. Before turning these hearings over to Congressman Ashley, I would like to emphasize the importance I attach to the development of a national growth policy for the country. Many of you who have followed past housing and urban development legislation realize that, often, provisions which are adopted without much fanfare prove to be the most important in the long run. I think this will prove to be the case with the national urban growth policy provisions of the 1970 Housing Act. All in all, there was very little debate in 1970 over the need for these provisions. And, because other more urgent provisions of that act attracted most of the attention, the importance of these growth policy provisions has not been adequately recognized. In title VII, the Congress asked the President to submit an urban growth report every 2 years, spelling out his recommendations for the development and carrying out of a national growth policy. We asked him to recommend ways in which the physical and social needs of our growing population can be satisfied over the next few decades—that is, where the roads and houses and schools needed to serve our growing population should be built, more efficiently and at lower cost and waste to all. During the 1970's, much of the debate in the Congress and the Nation will be focused on these questions, and the quality of life that Americans lead by the turn of the century will depend in great part on how we answer these questions. This hearing is the first of many that will be concerned with the development of an effective national policy. As many of you know, Congressman Thomas L. Ashley is the principal author of the 1970 act provisions. He is an acknowledged expert in this field and I am most happy that he has agreed to undertake these hearings. |