Abstract
The loss of agricultural land in California to urban development and the subsequent damage to air quality and crops, as well as the cost of food and government services, calls for a new look at local zoning practices to preserve the remaining farm and range land. Recent and proposed actions of the California Legislature are examined in the context of improving local regulations and local resistance to state programs. The present state structure for land-use control is shown to be inadequate, but the author concludes that an effective program can be developed if a statewide program based on the American Law Institute Model Land Development Code is adopted. The Code specifies planning through a state agricultural land agency to which local governments must be bound, but which must not duplicate or supplant local zoning. A statewide program would be expected to counteract the shortsighted local policies. 208 references. (DCK)
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