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Planning Activities Are Moving: In the western states, there are still 16 million acres of irrigable land not yet irrigated and l/2 million acres needing supplementary irrigation. There are also 50 million kilowatts of potential western generating capacity. Project planning activities are moving forward in all major western river basins to prepare plans for utilizing those potentialities to the utmost.
'Receiving the 'Planning Honor Award' confirms what we have long known: Governor Pataki's leadership is moving New York State towards a better and brighter future by embarking on projects that will make our state an even greater place to live, work and visit.'
The project was submitted for consideration by Peter Flynn of Flynn Battaglia Architects PC, and Thomas Blanchard, Director of Research & Planning for the Western New York office of Empire State Development Corporation, and was selected from a field of 74 entries from across the world.
With the Planning Honor Award, the Erie Canal Harbor Project joins other category award winning projects and communities like the Wuxi Li Lakefront Design in the Jiangsu Province in China, the Walsh Bay Project in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and the Silvertown Quays Master Plan in London.
The real task of the planning board therefore should be—and is, in those communities where planning is taken seriously—to serve as a research arm to the executive. "Pure" planning, planning according to theory, is a practical impossibility, for every executive decision is weighted by many factors of politics, expediency, finance, and local pressure. A conscientious executive and legislative body, nevertheless, can be assisted greatly in making decisions, if presented with the full implications, city-wide, of the alternatives.
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