The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-03-30
.LASHAR WILL
 GIVE SIO,OOO
 FOR APPROACH Makes This Offer to Aid Con- struction of Y-Shaped
 Bridge Entrance PLANS ARE NO GOOD
 UNLESS CARRIED OUT, City Plan Confusion Makes Elaborate Report On
 Model City.

More than anything else c4ty plan hing determines the increase in pop u1ation by high birth rate and low death rate,'' declared City PIanner John Nolen before the members of the common council last night: It was the first opportunity that mem bers of the council have had to study the city p1anner at close range. He presented his preliminary report and explained it.
 Walter B. Lashar. member of the city planning commission said he damage expense if the plan proposed by MT. Nolen for a Y-shaped western approach to the new Stratford avenue bridge were adopted. The plan for this approach called for one end of the ssY's to rest at Nichols street and the other on stra1ghter line through the present approach in Stratford avenue.
 AGr Laahar said he believed that the workmen from his factory in the East End who are obliged to come into the cdty many times a day would save much time if the ' shaped plan had been adopted. He said he fig of dollars in his pocket so that his offer of the big amount for land damages was not strictly phiIan- thropic one.
 Besides MT. NoIen just S2 persons attended the meeting including the mayor, members of the board Of al- dermen and the members of the city chairman; Bernard Heating, treasur- CT; Frederick Cederho1n, George M. Flames and MT. Lashar. MT. Davis introduced MT. Nolen and also pre- sented Mayor Wilson with a gilt-let- tered copy of the preliminary report %I. mission on the work done. He said that MT. Nolen's plan for the Y- shaped approach to the new Strat- ford avenue bridge had not been adopted because the bridge commits sion wanted to commence work with out delay. The members did not fee1Aas though they could wait for the cityi plan comrnission to finish it's work.
 Mr. Lashar, in speaking of the matter later on, said he felt the sit uatfon was one where haste makes Waste-,' Chairman Davis said Con necticut was one of the first states in the Union to take to the city plan ming idea and that such connis- ss sion had existed in this state nine years ago. MT. NoIen said the re- port was one of the briefest ever made on a. similar subject and could be read and carefully texamined in an hour.
 Bridgeport should adopt the city plan he said, because unless all signs fail Bridgeport is going to be the biggest city. in this state The growth In business and population the increase in building permits. the survey made by the Telephone com pany all these things point to a big ger city. but the growth Of the city is dependent on having things done right
 s4The real purpose Of city planning is to facilitate business and make Bridgeport a better place tc live in Increase in population, low cost of production, and low taxes, are the three elements which enter into the prosperity of a cfty.''
 MT. NoIen said the Y-shaped ap- proach to the new Stratford avenue bridge and State street bridge would increase the income to from between $3o.0o0 and $60,o0o. He said it took courage to adopt the best plan and that a plan which for five years might cost the city considerable money in 25 years would probably earn back this cost and show a profit in addition.
 "A city does not grow forward of itself he said. Healthy and per- nanent growth are the results of the applications of good brains and thought to the problems concerned. Plans are no good unless they are carried out and it is the adopting of policies and passing and enforcing or dinances about things which most people all too lightly turn dreams which bring about results There is a new era dawning for Bridgeport My part so far has been largely to point out what may be done here.