University of Miami Law Review Volume 14 Number 3 Article 2 5-1-1960 The Metropolitan Special District: Intercounty Metropolitan Government of Tomorrow Robert W. Tobin Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.miami.edu/umlr Recommended Citation Robert W. Tobin, The Metropolitan Special District: Intercounty Metropolitan Government of Tomorrow, 14 U. Miami L. Rev. 333 (1960) Available at: https://repository.law.miami.edu/umlr/vol14/iss3/2 This Leading Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at University of Miami School of Law Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in University of Miami Law Review by an authorized editor of University of Miami School of Law Institutional Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW VOLUME XIV SPRING, 1960 NUMBER 3 THE METROPOLITAN SPECIAL DISTRICT: INTERCOUNTY METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF TOMORROW* ROBERT W. TOBIN" * INTRODUCTION The time is fast approaching when the state legislatures will have to devise an intercounty form of metropolitan government. The ever- expanding geographic scope of metropolitan areas' has created a situation in which state and county boundaries have failed to contain the outward push from many a large central city.2 This mushrooming growth has rendered intracounty methods of metropolitan government obsolete and has neces- sitated a new approach to metropolitan government. On an interstate level certain compacts have already laid the groundwork for supracounty local government ' and have furnished something of a model for intercounty areas spanning two or more states. 4 However, on an intrastate level little VThis is tile second part of a thesis being submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of the Science of Law, in the Faculty of Law, Columbia University.