New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-12

by a growing city. Improved transit
facilities will be developed, the com
muting centres for some sixty miles
around will doubtless continue to grow
In increasing ratio, new industrial ana
business centres will grow up, but the
great bulk Of the population will con
tinue 10 be housed within 6 iive-cent
fare and thirty or forty minute ride
of the central business district IN Man
haitian.
IAN ideal dstricting plan would dis
regard existing conditions, require the
removal of inappropriate buildings and
uses. bring back depressed districts TO
their appropriate uses, sacrifice the
vested rights Of the individual owner
for the improvement and beautiication
Of the district and city. 1t IS readily
apparent that rauch could properly be
done in this way II some method we're
provided for compromising the individ-
ual owners for actual injury suffered.
"Of course, under the police power
reasonable and appropriate regulations
demanded in the interest Of pubic
health, safety and general welfare may
be enforced without compromising the
individual owner for incidental injury
or expense involved. The extent TO
tricting purposes has not as yet been
adjudicated authoritatively in this
state. The proposed districting plan
has. therefore. been limited TO such
features as il seemed must certainly
appeal 10 the courts as being well
within the reasonable scope Of the
police power.
Three use Districts"
"A tentative draft of resolution
and accompanying maps are submlttes
establishing residential districts and
business districts for the boroughs Of
Manhattan. Brooklyn, The Bronx,
Queens and Richmond.
"N. In residential district only
buildings with their usual accessories
designed for the following specified
uses may be constructed: Private resi-
donces and apartments. hotels, private
clubs. religious, educational. curative
and philanthropic buildings and insti-
buttons.
"(2). In n business district a list Of
specified industries and uses of clear
~ Objectionable character are exclud-
ed. rs are all other uses that arc
noxious or offensive by reason Of the
emission of noise. odor, dust or ga.
An exception, however, is made in the
case Of garages. livery stables, car
barns and places OF amusement.
"While il would seem desirable 10
keep public garages of OF business
streets. public convenience seems 10
require their location in close proXim-
fly 10 the residential and local bust
ness areas. The larger type OF fac
tory is excluded from the business dis
81 Iaf
NAV be occupied for factory uses in
any one building in a business district
10 Is per cent Of the total floor space
of the building. but floor space equa!
20 twice the ground floor area OF the
building may in any case be so used.
THE proposed regulations apply only
10 future buildings and uses, and DO
not interfere with any existing struct-
ure or occupancy.
"(3). The remaining portions OF the
city not included in the residential or
business districts are left unrestrict-
ed"
Five classes of height districts are
provided, limiting the height of the
building at the street line TO varying
multiple of the street width. These
multiples vary from two and one-half
times the street width. in the Office and
financial section of Manhattan. to one
times the street width, in the more un-
developed sections of Brooklyn, The
Bronx, Queens and Richmond Back Of
the street wall the building may 90
higher, but lot beyond the line formed
by the extension Of line drawn from
the centre Of the street to the limit
ing height Cf the street wall.
This principle of limitation has been
applied to tenement house construction
in New York since 1885. 1t has also
been applied extensively in European
cities. The only district IN which a