THE BAY AREA, ITS PROSPECTS AND ITS PROBLEMS - 13 - by residents of the City, for as Albert Furth, an executive editor ot Time Magazine, recently pointed out, many of our ablest leaders in the area are disenfranchised in the city. I cannot help but wonder whether the local communities are taking full advantage of the abilities of those who reside there. Throughout the entire Bay Area I am confident that there is lying fallow and unused, much skill that could in different circumstances be put effectively to work on solving our area-wide problems. As I have pondered the problems ahead, it seems to me patently clear that these problems will not be solved until we develop a political structure that corresponds to the economic unit that we are trying to manage. I am no expert on forms of this government, but I suggest that we would do well to give intensive study to the desirability of adopting an over-all form of government for the Bay Area that would be along the lines of the burrough system in New York or the Toronto Plan. We should leave the solution of local problems to local government but we should isolate the area-wide problems and put them under the management of a political entity that could deal effectively with them on an over-all basis and could spread equitably the costs of carrying out the programs adopted. Local autonomy could be preserved and protected, while at the same time we could achieve the benefits that will follow a sound solution of our area problems. In the long run, I am certain that each of us would be very much better off and that the Bay Area could assure to itself one of the soundest and most dynamic growths ever experienced by a major metropolitan region. Surely, the Bay Area has its problems, but most of them are symptoms of a healthy growth and can be met by the application of intelligence and diligence. Certainly I would rather face the problems that we have here, rather