40:55B-2 - Legislative finding; purpose of chapter - New Jersey Statutes

40:55B-2.  Legislative finding;  purpose of chapter
    It is hereby found and declared as follows:

    a.  That unless many municipalities are to accept decadence and obsolescence  as their inevitable lot, they must thoroughly analyze their position in the  industrial structure of the country and then completely mobilize their  potential resources for efficient manufacture;  that the location of industry  today is more and more the result of an impartial, scientific study of basic  economic conditions;  that one of the basic difficulties of many of the  municipalities of this state is that they do not know themselves;  that they  have little appreciation of either their economic strength or their economic  weakness;  that they have never studied impartially either the economic  advantages or the economic disadvantages of their own peculiar geographic  position;  that there had been an abundance of publicity campaigns and boosting  campaigns founded upon superficial generalities and not well designed to  enlighten the prospective manufacturer; that a frank inventory of the  industrial life of New Jersey communities as a deliberate and sober inquiry of  scientific character is necessary to ascertain their real needs and to  determine their potential resources for efficient manufacture with a  constructive program for sustained and selective growth and a long term policy  of industrial rehabilitation and development is necessary.

    b.  That there are now many thousands of unemployed persons within the state  of New Jersey, who, if profitably employed, would create annual pay rolls of  millions of dollars;  that the re-employment of the present unemployed would  quicken and improve social conditions.