"Perhaps not for two or three decades, or even longer, will the Los Angeles area fully understand that it is one metropolis community, and that its long-range planning, like many other functions, might be more satisfactory if co-ordinated on a metropolitan basis . . . . . Small communities are always apprehensive of being gobbled by large ones; and large communities are usually impatient with their small neighbors. Yet the mounting complexity of life in this metropolitan area exerts a constant pressure for over-all direction. Time may demonstrate to all that the Los Angeles area should function as a unit. (1)
"Urban development is no limited t the arbitrary lines established by legally defined municipal boundaries. For an orderly and rational development of the urban areas, many problems must be solved on a co-operative basis by all governmental units which are a part of such an area." (2)
". . . . . advocates of metropolitan government have all too often avoided meeting head-on the fundamental obstacles to really satisfactory local government reorganization: outmoded constitutional provisions, exaggerated deference to the pocket-sized municipal corporations, and vast arrays of legislation passed as expedient solutions to problems of the moment. There is little hope for meeting the governmental problems of the modern metropolitan community by temporizing with these impediments . . . . . Until a real effort is made to get at the basic legal and structural problems that distort and complicate the local government picture, those who attempt to tinker with the problems of metropolitan areas will continue to face defeat and frustration . . . . ." (3)
"Competition among municipalities to increase their potential tax resources impedes farsighted land use planning needed for the whole area. In order to encourage the location of commercial developments within their boundaries, municipalities sometimes alter their zoning ordinances in a manner which seriously affects land use plans of surrounding communities." (4)
"The City remains the area's industrial and economic core. In terms of long-run economic well-being, the City and the County will sink or swim together." (5)
"In brief, metropolitan government is one of the major unsolved problems in America. Our greatest cities -- the economic, social and cultural centres of a revolutionary technological civilization -- are governed under a set of governmental patterns concocted to meet the needs f one-horse farming and stagecoach transportation . . . . . " (6)
"Moreover, they daily tax city services to near exhaustion without paying direct taxes to support those services, although their trade with