The Special Projects Advisory Committee (SPAC) was established under the provision of the Special Projects Act of 1990, by which the Government sought to revitalize regional development planning in Arcadia. SPAC is involved very actively in this task: a group of informed citizens, applying their experience and common sense to the evaluation of Special Project proposals, and delivering concrete advice about how they should be put into effect. A basic premise of Special Projects is to integrate the activities, resources and initiatives of diverse government departments in concrete development efforts: in other words, to focus the energies of existing agencies in cooperative development efforts. Projects were devised by specialists in National and International bureaus, with too little reference to public interests. The failure of many ambitious development efforts can be attributed at least in part to official ignorance of local circumstances.