10.2190/28MT-A99X-2WCR-DVV2 28MTA99X2WCRDVV2 3 How Effective the Master Plan? 225 242 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 28MTA99X2WCRDVV2.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=28MTA99X2WCRDVV2 3 George M. Raymond Urban and Environmental Planning Consultants, Raymond, Parish & Pine Inc. Far from being an irrelevant appendage, a master plan is essential if municipalities are to guide their development in a rational manner. To be effective, a master plan must be officially adopted by the local governing body as the foundation stone of an adequately financed continuing planning process. The master plan's validity is not negated by recognition of the regional impact of local land use decisions and of the need to address social and economic goals.

As used in this report, the term Master Plan is synonymous with the term Land Development Plan as that term is used in Tentative Draft No. 2 of A Model Land Development Code, The American Law Institute, April 1970.

Norman Williams, Planning Law and Democratic Living, 20 Law & Contemporary Problems, 317 (1955).

Golden vs. Planning Board of Town of Ramapo, N. Y. S. 2d (1971).

The conceptual framework of this paper is much indebted to Louis Halle's general discussion of the problems faced by statesmen in The Society of Man, Dell Publishing Co., N. Y., 1969. It appears that whether statesmen are concerned with making sense in foreign affairs or urban affairs, their problems are the same. Fortunately, they haven't given up in either field—and hopefully, they never will.

Quoted in Louis Halle, op. cit.

Ibid.

William L. C. Wheaton, Operations Research for Metropolitan Planning, 29, J. Amer. Inst. Planners 250 (1963).

Ibid

A Model Land Development Code, The American Law Institute, Tentative Draft No. 2, April 24, 1970, pp. 86-87.

Louis Halle, op. cit.

The New York Times Guide to Federal Aid for Cities and Towns, Howard S. Rowland, Quadrangle Books, New York, 1971, pp. 1-23.