Word: ramapo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Similar growth-limiting measures have been adopted by other communities, including Boca Raton, Fla., and Ramapo, N. Y., as well as a handful of other California towns. The motive may be healthy-to conserve resources, including simple living and breathing space, that are becoming scarcer all the time. In a country where migration remains a major avenue of social change, it still seems disturbing to throw up barriers against growth and, by extension, the freedom of people to move and change their lives. In several cases the courts have tried to defend this freedom while also approving rationally regulated, nondiscriminatory...
...Ramapo, N.Y. When John F. McAlevey first ran for town supervisor of this New York City suburb in 1965, he campaigned on a platform of controlling growth. He had seen the local population triple since 1940. He also recognized that developers largely determined the patterns of growth, paying little heed to the integrity of the rolling landscape or to the tax consequences of their actions. McAlevey promised to save Ramapo from being submerged in a sea of little houses. He won that election and every one since...
Last year, ruling on a suit by landowners and developers who wanted to overthrow McAlevey's program, the New York State Court of Appeals upheld-and praised-Ramapo's scheme. Says McAlevey: "What we fought for was the right of a community through its elected officials to chart its own destiny...