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[Land use planning reports; Wisconsin counties]
([1939/1942])
[Kenosha county land use planning], pp. [unnumbered]-22
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4. II. Community Committees The Community Committees were made up of some of the most able, succee.!ful farmers in the Community. Their educations ranged freia tAe grades to men who have University degrees. Many are sho..' t course graduates. In the past, a few had followed pro- fessions other than farming. Most of them are leaders in their communities and life-long residents of Kenosha County. No question of nationality, of religion, nor of social signifi- cance came up at any time to prevent the proper functioning of any committee - community or county. III. Meetings Beceuse of the lateness of the season, only a limited number of meetings could be held. The county committee was assembled and the project explained and discussed. Each community committee met only once. The results of the community committee meetings were summarized by the SecretarJ and placed before the County Committee for corrections and correlation. IV. Community Committee Meetings The Community Committee meetings were informal round table discussions. The Secretary explained the purpose of the meeting, the uses to be made of the information, sources of information and the method of procedure. He presented some preliminary information concern- ing the town such as acreage and livestock statistics, soils maps, topographical maps, pertinent A.A.A. statistics, etc. V. Cc relation of Material Recommendations made on the maps were colored roughly with a uniform key for all townships. The rmaps were then trimmed and glued together to form one large county map. Viewed as a whole, the discrepancies from township to township were surprisingly slight From the notes taken at each township meeting, narrative statements were prepared (typed triple space) and sent to each community chair- man for his corrections, additions or observations. The results of the community committee meetings were summarized to make up the County narrative report. These, together with the map, were presented to the County Committee for correlation of results from township to township and for the county as a whole. The state specialists were kept pretty much in the background until this had been accomplished. The physical description taken from the Soil Survey of Racine and Kenosha Counties was advpted to Kenosha County. The corrected summary follows:
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