Excerpts: The principal public way available to citizens for guiding the growth of their community toward desired ends is to use the planning-zoning process. More and more, rural people are doing this through their local governing bodies aided by community planning and zoning boards. Zoning is most successful in a community that has worked out a comprehensive plan of development. Such a plan outlines what the community wants in the future and suggests how present and future improvements and land uses should be related. The comprehensive plan should be based on a study of resources, problems, needs, and potentials of the community. Usually the comprehensive plan is set forth in a series of maps and proposals for future improvements. One or more of these maps indicate areas suitable for industry, business, homes, farming, recreation, and other uses. These maps can help the community establish the various kinds of zones needed to carry out the master plan.