ABSTRACT
The development of state policy for managing Florida's land and water resources under immense pressures of growth and development had reached a critical threshold by 1974. In enacting the land and water laws of 1972 the legislature in effect moved a step nearer acceptance of the proposition that, to protect and enhance the quality of life in Florida, new development must stay within state approved policies and guidelines as to its location, type, areal extent, and the density of population to be accommodated. Yet those new laws represented only a beginning on which subsequent legislatures could build. In the spring of 1974, the legislature took up two proposals which, once adopted, will represent another important step in the evolution of an overall state policy for the control of land use and growth.
