Several years ago, the United States Forest Service found that more than 3,000 acres per year were being lost to development, and a commission appointed by Mr. McGreevey found that runoff from new construction in the area was threatening the state's drinking water supply.
House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole asked Jack Kemp, the former congressman and secretary of housing and urban development, to lead a commission that would report back with recommendations for fundamental tax reform.
The Times contacted several executive directors of redevelopment agencies in the San Gabriel Valley and could find none that pay development consultants on a commission basis.
Charles A. Gargano, chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, said that a commission with powers split equally between the city and state would probably end up deadlocked.
Richer northern countries want to hold the poor to their pledge to pursue sustainable economic development by setting up a commission to monitor the South's strategies.
"Putting a project into development by no means guarantees a commission but our ratio of projects that do make it to the screen is very strong indeed at one in four," said the spokeswoman.
In a separate development, one commission member, Lisa Graham Keegan, said tonight that she would not have voted for a recommendation to change the basis for judging proportionality to a 50-50 divisiof of available sports slots, with a margin of 2 to 3 percentage points.
Ms. Griego, a former chili stand operator and deputy mayor for economic development, commissioned a door-to-door survey of businesses operating in South Central Los Angeles and other forsaken areas.
Governor Byrne invoked that power when the Legislature balked at establishing a commission to control development.
