an acknowledgement of the societal-economic-environmental
necessity for a pre-planning pre-provisioning and pre-funding
approach to urban growth management and rural retention
throughout a whole regional territory.
Sixthis a ‘consistency’ requirement which, at a technical-legal
level, underscores a mandatory necessity, conjoint state-
regional-local participation in the foregoing policies and
procedures.
These six benchmark principles are dependent on some other sig-
nificant inputs. The legal control factor derives from a mandated
no-exceptions status. This recognition also calls into being an
input of funding adequate for the job in hand and for a holding
to that position within a future context of changing political ori-
entation. One final ingredient, arising out of public sentiment and
widespread education, is continuing political and public support
and commitment, in a word ‘acceptability’ between all parties,
but especially on the part of local government agencies.^25
Finally for this passage, and quoting again from DeGrove’s
seminal text (1984: 389): ‘The days of fancy plans being developed
every five or ten years, and then placed on the shelf, are giving
away...to plans that are linked both to state and regional
policies, and the local implementation process.’ The extent of
resource degradation and amenity damage resulting as a conse-
quence of the previous 20-year look-ahead pattern of ex-urban
expansion, and recognition of the joylessness, dysfunction and
diseconomy of much suburban and peri-urban life, focuses and
underscores the emphasis within this passage on a rural exclu-
sionaryand anurban inclusionarybasis to urban-rural patterning.
These wake-up criteria are pursued notbecause land is in scarce supply, but
because suburban sprawl and rural-urban sprawl is everlastingly costly, environ-
mentally damaging and socially discordant.
Coastal zone management
(Refer also to the Water’s Edge Management passage in chapter 5.)
First a review of some positives. These arise within Anglo settler societies on
account of the bi-cultural (‘native’ and ‘settler’ peoples) attachments to the fore-
shore landscapes and seascapes, and the established pattern of access and use,
shown all-of-a-piece in figure 4.4 as the Coastal marine zone. Communities in all
four Anglo settler society nations enjoy and flock to the water’s margin.
Growth Pattern Management 163Much mention is made
of Oregon, particularly
the 24 municipalities and
the counties around
Portland; particularly by
a focus on an all-of-state
application of the
Growth Management
strategy.
Other approaches, like
the Queensland effort,
are selective and partial.
Another, much
publicized, is the
‘creative development’
arrangement scoped by
Yaro and Arendt for the
Connecticut River Valley
(1994) setting out to
conserve existing
woodlands, retain good
quality land for
agriculture, group any
allowed housing into
‘clusters’, and prohibit
building upon profiled
ridgelines or close to
roadlines.The design issues
associated with peri-
urban growth
management are
addressed in the next
chapter under ‘Ex-urban
Strategy’.