ARsUCKLE: Since writing a brief letter yesterday to your associate Ms. Wendy Gramm expressing the Countys opposition to the deletion of important population. transportationrelated and housing questions from the 1990 Census. it has come to our attention that a slightly more detailed rationale for our recommendation is in order. Accordingly. the following programmatic applications of Census data would be seriously curtailed for this local government by the deletion of these essential questions for the 1990 Census: (1) residence five years ago is a basic factor in immigration and. therefore. population forecasting. (2) mode of transportation to work. carpooling. time of departure and travel time to work are not only key elements in transportation and traffic modeling. but the basis for such essential issues as commuting patterns. land use and highway planning. (3) all questions related to the residential labor force are critical to economic development and planning. and are vital to a County located centrally in the WashingtonBaltimore corridor. and (4) each of the housing questions proposed for deletion have provided invaluable data for County planning and decisionmaking in the areas of housing and human service delivery systems. Perhaps the greatest loss. however. would be the ability to crosstabulate these essential data items for the ongoing process of General Plan development. comprehensive zoning and budgetary forecasts. In addition. much of this information is required in the background narrative for Community Development Block Grant applications. as well as Section 3.
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