Excerpt from Land Use Survey and Development Plan, Shelby, North Carolina: December 1963 Shelby is presently in the midst of a period of rapid growth. Although such growth is to be greatly desired it is not an unmixed blessing. If growth is improperly coordinated many of the amenities which the older citizens have built up or preserved over the years are likely to be obliterated by the heedless manner in which new developments are added. With coordinated development, which presupposes that a city knows where it is going, it is possible to relate old and new facil ities in such a way as to augment the attractiveness and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.