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An Easterner's Perspective On Colorado Land Use Issues, E. F. Roberts
An Easterner's Perspective On Colorado Land Use Issues, E. F. Roberts
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Land use planning all too easily can escalate into an Aristophanic cloud-cuckoo-land inhabited by two strange breeds. First, there is a species of lawyers whose verbal agility tends to divert attention away from the real issues at hand. Second, there are the cartographers whose urge to produce maps can actually have a chilling effect on efforts to plan because these maps are perceived as attempts by “the authorities” to corral the public into zones fashioned in the manner of a Rorschach test. An effort will be made here to steer a course between these extremes and to deal with planning …