Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-17
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A great deal is being said these days about city
planning. This means the drawing up OF o den-
mite plan for the city 5 growth or deyelopmehe
by competent architects. This idea includes
identifying the city with parks and establishing
a civic center, together with improved transporta-
ton. lighting and other features of this sort.
While it is true that the cities giving the most
attention to this kind OF work at the present time
are a great deal larger than Perth Amboy, 1T is
also true that it is costing them a great deal
more money to carry out the idea than 1t would
this city. In other words, if the municipalities
that are now adopting the city planning scheme
had done so when they were the size OF Perth
Amboy and had allowed the idea to develop as
the city grew, they would have the advantages
they are now seeking without spending the mil
lions of dollars that it is costing them,
Columbus Ohio, proposes to issue $350s000 in
bonds to provide for the purchase OF sites needed
in It's protective civic center. Montreal is taking
similar action. Pittsburgh and Milwaukee are
studying the house problem, and Springfield,
Mass. has planned an educational center. New
York and Philadelphia have other plans on hand.
Kansas City, in the last few years, has spent
$4,000, 900 in the development of a chain Of parks
Hartford, Conn, has adopted a progressive plan
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yard is being constructed to connect a
civic center to q recreative and educational
center. Almost everywhere we find some under
lying question how to rebuild the city and provide
for its best future growth.
There is no doubt that as time passes all the
cities Of the country viii be taking up the matter.
will come when Perth Amboy must also
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be put 30 the same expense and Inconvenience
that the present large cities are experiencing,
all because Of Our neglect now while the city
Is developing.
Tn every undertaking in Perth Amboy there
should be an eye to the future and plans should
he made For the development along a systematic
line 80 that, as we grow step by step, each effort
win be to d purpose and will play q part In
the whole idea when completely carried out. At
the present time we. have a civic center growing
Ia the vicinity Of Madison avenue and jefferson
street. Here we have the federal building and
the library. In this same locality the Z. M. q.
a.. has secured a site for a new building, ana
the Hebrew institute will also be built IN this
vicinity. The location il a favorable one for
such a center and the city officials, IN planning
for the future of the city, should keep the idea
In mind. Time will come when the quarters at
the present city. hall will be outgrown. Where
it is now located, together with the police sta
ton, is decidedly inconvenient to a great majority
Of the people. Some day in the future a new
city hall will be built. When this is done It
would be well to have a suitable site ready IN
the vicinity already mentioned.
With the abolition of grade crossings and the
depression Of railroad tracks through the city
it is possible that a handsome new station will
be built. This should be a union depot for all
three railroads, erected on the triangular plot
of land at New Brunswick avenue extending