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Article: Environmental land use, indirect source controls and California's south coast plan; is the day of attainment coming?
- Article from:
- Environmental Law
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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I. INTRODUCTION
From the beginning, land use boards and environmentalists have butted heads, each perceiving the other as its prime competitor in a race for a limited resource. However, this historic feud has generated necessary compromises from its adversarial tensions. As testimony to this developing relationship, the land use reform movement of the 1970s sprang from the friction between a rapidly expanding society and the need to preserve the environment. Thus land use planning began to weigh, balance and account for more than just commercial, localized interests. It recognized that land ownership provided not only capital and power to the landowner, but ...