The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-20
Preliminary Regional
 Plan Is Prepared
Planning Commission Release First Scheme for New
 England Cooperation With Existing Agencies

Planning for the people of New England by the people of New Eng land is demonstrated in the prelirn- mary New England regional plan released today by Victor M. Cutter, chairman of the New England re- gional planning commission. This is the first offlcisl comprehensive re- gional plan for a group of states. It includes plans for New England highways, airways, flood control res- ervoirs and public reservations shown graphically on Q colored map 22 inches by 30 inches. This map serves as Q basic picture which will be continuously developed over period of years and will cover not only the four important classifica- tions of public works but other plly- sical developments as conditions in the future may require.
 The New England regional plan- ming commission is directly re- sponsible for the preparation and release of the plan, but in the three years during which the work has been in progress aid and criticism have been sought from and given by federal, state and local planning agencies and their consultants, nu- merous private organizations, and members of the commissions advis- ory committee, which comprises more than a thousand professional and lay citizens throughout New England. The plan does not in- terfere with the policies or programs Of any planning agencies, but rather provides the common medium whereby plans of the towns, cities, counties and states of the region can be adjusted one to another in the light of mutual intelligence for the common good. In the develop ment of this plan for the physical needs of New England wide use has been made of data of social and economic significance. It is not c scheme for spending new money, but flexible guide for the normal spending that goes on from day to day. It Is not working plan. but logical guide for the development of detailed plans by local and state planning boards and other state de- partments.
 A few discrepancies, which can be cleared up only after further re- search and further development of state plans, are Intentionally shown on the New England plan, because of their value in indicating the in. terdependence of all planned devel- opments in the region, and the im- portance of a comprehensive ap- proach to regional planning.
 Among the significant features of the plan are: Q regional highway system including a coastal limited way from New York serving Hart ford, Providence, Boston, the lower Merrimack Valley, and the Maine seacoast; an inland parkway serving the recreation areas of western Massachusetts, western and north ern New Hampshire, and the princi- pal inland recreation points in Maine; Q region-wide system of through ways incorporating, when possible, such elements of modern highway design as by-passing of cities. limited access, divided road. waysand grade separation.
 The airways data on the plan pre- sent graphically the salient points of Q plan for New England airways, published by the commission about Q month ago, in which 1t is shown that "in New England existing airways serve a majority of the important cities, but that establishment of ad.