Sadly, in New Jersey no such planning principles have been developed. While all the principles are familiar to botanists and ecologists, this has no effect whatsoever upon the form of development. Houses are built upon dunes, grasses destroyed, dunes breached for beach access and housing; groundwater is withdrawn with little control, areas are paves, bayshore is filled and urbanized. Ignorance is compounded with anarchy and greed to make the raddled face of the Jersey Shore.