5- ever increasing community needs. Under the pressure of expanding populations, with the need to attract new commerce and industry, communities simply cannot stay as they are. The answer lies in a positive well-conceived and well-planned program that provides the best answer to the problem from the standpoint of the entire community, and we must find a way to muster the majority in support of such a program and to overcome the self-seeking militant minority whose views will otherwise prevail at the polling place. In this respect San Francisco, for one example, is extremely fortunate in the caliber of its officials. Mayor Christopher's Mayor has surrounded himself with appointments of excellent caliber, take Paul Bessinger, Roger Lapham, Jr., Tom Mellon, Harold McKinnon, Henry Ralph, These are the type of men every city administration needs, but few secure. Hot all of our neighboring communities are I have considerable concern as well over the manner in which we are approaching the problems that face the San Francisco Bay Area as a whole--as apart from the local problems facing the individual cities in the Bay Area. I suggest to you that no community can safely consider itself an island but must be very much concerned with the manner in which the Bay Area as a whole is guided and developed. The nine counties that comprise the San Francisco Bay Area are increasingly an economic unit, even though they contain some 76 incorporated areas and over 100 political subdivisions* The prosperity of every businessman in the area will be vitally affected by the prosperity of the entire region, and therefore I say to you that we must examine critically the adequacy of our setup in this area to influence our economic destinies and to solve the many