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...lots $40,000 per acre Cape Cod, Mass. on bayside in Osterville $30,000 per ½ acre Martha's Vineyard, Mass. on Vineyard Sound $104,000 per acre (with 300 ft. frontage) Island Pond, Vt. 16 miles from Canadian border $150 per acre Long Island's north shore, non-waterfront lots $12,000 per acre Disney World, Fla., on swampy southern fringe $900 per acre Disney World, north on Lake Hancock Road $4,000 per acre Sundance ski resort, 60 miles from Salt Lake City $10,000-$13,000 per acre Lakeway resort community, near Austin, Texas...
...developments, strip mining and highways. The total is equivalent to the land area of Connecticut. Next year another 3,000,000 acres will be built up, paved over or stripped. Most of the change is taking place on the relatively flat farm lands around the most populous cities, near shore lines, or in the most popular resort areas. In these locations particularly, the amount of land is limited -the all too many abuses of land are all too visible...
...They have launched what amounts to an inchoate, national crusade to get better ways of using land no matter what the cost. In state referendums last year, Colorado's voters vetoed a bid to host the 1976 Winter Olympics; Californians restricted development along their entire 3,500-mile shore line; Floridians passed a $240 million bond issue to buy and preserve ecologically valuable land; New Yorkers approved a $1.15 billion environmental bond issue partly for the same purpose. A provocative study of land-use problems by a task force of Government officials and private experts headed by Laurance...
...Planning Assistance Act does not fix policy at all. Instead, it provides $1.1 billion over eight years to help states devise a process of planning and "methods of implementation" for their plans. The states would have to pay special attention to: 1) areas of critical environmental concern, notably shore lines, floodplains, wildlife habitats; 2) areas affected by key facilities that induce growth, notably highways, airports, power plants; 3) large-scale private developments; and 4) land bordering new towns. An amendment wisely calls for state regulation of recreational-land sales to ensure that new projects will not cause environmental troubles...
...team was hurt by a costly mental error when Wood left his spinnaker pole on shore during one of the heats, resulting in a seventh place finish...