A PLANNER'S VIEW OF UNDERGROUND DEVELOPMENT
The planners task is identified as that of coordinating the needs of industry with public policy in terms of stated and implicit public goals and objectives. Among the areas of concern to planners are energy conservation, air and water pollution, transportation systems, decaying central cities, aesthetics and the competitive advantage of industrial production. Reduced space heating and cooling, and reduced air pollution (most of local pollution is from electricity generation) would be facilitated by underground location of facilities. Underground development would also eliminate land use conflicts. The steps which could be taken to ensure incorporation of underground space reuse into a comprehensive planning strategy are: mapping of strategically located quality limestone as part of a general geologic inventory; adoption of protective zoning to ensure coherent and planned development; encouragement of quarrying on public lands, especially beneath parks and boulevards; and providing for vertical differentiation in zoning and subdivision.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Published in the Proceedings of the Symposium on the Development and Utilization of Underground Space, March 5-7, 1975, Kansas City, Mo., sponsored by the Department of Geosciences, University of Missouri, Kansas City.
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Corporate Authors:
National Science Foundation
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Authors:
- Young, H W
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1975-3
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: p. 71-73
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Conservation; Coordination; Energy; Environmental impacts; Geological surveying; Inertia; Land use; Limestone; Mapping; Multiple use; Planning; Public policy; Quarrying; Underground structures; Zoning
- Old TRIS Terms: Comprehensive planning; Subsurface explorations
- Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Energy; Environment; Geotechnology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00130635
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 7 1976 12:00AM