THE BAY AREA, ITS PROSPECTS AND ITS PROBLEMS - 8 - The local problems facing our many political agencies and subdivisions in the Bay Area are surprisingly similar and vary for the most part in degree rather than in their nature. Study each community, and you will find that the local people and their government are hard at work on these matters. 1. Better ingress and egress to their city. 2. Improved traffic flow within the city. 3. Better parking facilities to accommodate the increased number of vehicles and to sustain their major shopping areas. 4. Increasing the attractiveness of their shopping areas for the convenience of their citizens and the support of local business. 5. Providing the additional schools and other community buildings and services that are necessary to care for adequately their increasing population. 6. Directing community development through planning and zoning with the objective varying by communities. Some fighting to preserve the community as it exists, preserving the status quo as a residential area. Others, foreseeing the tax implications of this course, trying to encourage the planned development of their area with balanced growth between industry, commercial facilities, and homes. 7. Protection or enhancement of their competitive position in relation to their neighboring communities with particular reference to industrial and business development. 8. Finally, trying to figure out an answer to their fiscal problems, how to meet the costs of providing vastly expanded community facilities without an inordinate increase in tax rates. The intensity of each of these problems will vary by community. The older communities have more difficult problems of traffic flow, parking, and modernization of business areas, for they lack flexibility and are burdened