New-York tribune., 1916-07-24
Estimate Board Must Act
Thursday or Wait
Until Late Fall.
REALTY MEN JOIN
IN URGING IDEA
New York Must Be Taught to
Grow Under Proper ReStric-
tions, Is Plea.

With the Endorsement Of the ma
jority of the commercial, money leno-
inr. real estate and civic organizations
of New York the building zone plan
presented last spring by the city plans
committee will on Thursday come be-
fore the Board of Estimate for fnai
action. II il is not adopted at that
time no further action can be taken
until probably late in the fall.
Roth the Advisory Council OF the
Real Estate Interests and the Commis-
sion on Building Districts and ke-
strictions united yesterday IN urging
that the zone plan be finally adorted
this week by the board.
Many in Favor Of Plan.
"If action is deferred" declared Ed
ward NJ. Bassett, chairman of the Com
mission on Building Districts and Re
strictions, "more garages and factories
will be located in good residence sec
tions. The plan now has a more gen
eral support than has ever been gwen
to a constructive change of such FAR
reaching importance. No opposition
has been met with in the Board Of Is
innate itself"
Most of those who still object to
the plan" says the City Plan Commits
sion Of the Board of Estimate, in
statement issued yesterday, do so be-
cause the restrictions affecting their
particular locality are not as severe or
inclusive as they should like. This is
proof of the moderation with wnlch
the plan has been applied.
"The plan does not purpose TO put
New York into a straitjacket. 1t Will,
however alleviate the growing pains
from which the city has been suffering
so severely owing to unregulated build
ing development. New York must grow;
but it may as well grow along perma-
nent, well ordered lines as along
economical. wasteful lines. plan OF
city building is necessary TO save New
York.
Commission Working Hard.
"The Districting Commission is com
posed of men eminently qualified for
the important problems given them TO
solve. They have brought to the sc-
complishment Of their tasks experience,
expert knowledge and willingness to
give of their time and energy 70 de-
gree seldom equalled in an unpaid com
mission of this kind"
The advisory council of the Real Es-
tate Interests in a statement support
ing the plan says:
"This council approves very heartily
of the resolution and ordinance that
have been drafted with reference to d.
viding the city into zones and limiting
the height Of buildings. There is moth
ing more conductive toward stabllizlng
real estate values than the city plan
ming outlined by the commission. 1t
is. therefore, essentially important
that the ordinance prepared be adopt
ed by the Board of Estimate at It's spe-
cial meeting this week.
"In order that general support for
the entire work of the commission
might be obtained this council called
three conferences. The first VS. at
the Merchants Association, where rep
resentatives of the 1875 property
owners organizations throughout the
city voted TO support the work. The
second was at the Chamber of Com
merce, where the financial institutions
lending on mortgages voted unani-
mously in support of the plan. AT the
third meeting the general pubic cast
q similar vote Of approval"