South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-06

me city planning OmmiSsiOn
which was appointed during the
Kellsr administration Is expecting
10 appear before the council tomor-
row night when the city officials
will be present They will then out
line a plan which they viii ask the
council officials 20 adopt and APP
propriate funds for maintaining
their plan The commission Is COM
posed Of William Happ. chairman
David Guilfoyle. F. W Young Fred
Anderson. city engineer. and W w
Ridenour
Advocate Wider Streets.
Every effort will be made by the
commission 10 interest the officials
In the program of wider streets.
local surveys. proper housing. loca-
lions Of industries and restricted
residential districts.
A system OF dividing the ci:y into
zones will be one Of the important
features on which the commission
viii lay particular emphasis. The
system when completed will deal
with existing streets. proposed
streets. street car tracks, railroad
properties. existing Fairgrounds
and parks proposed Fairgrounds
and parks. existing school grounds.
proposed school grounds. other pub
Tic properties. public and semi-pub-
lie properties and cemeteries.
Describes Zone Plan.
John Nolen. one OF the country's
ablest city planners in speaking OF
zone plans said:
II suppose that before men will
discipline themselves to learn and
plan, they must first see IN a hun
dred convincing forms the folly and
muddle that come from headlong,
aimless. and haphazard methods
The whole Of Bromstead as I re-
member II. and as 1 saw it last
which was about a year ago-is a
dull. useless bOiling-up of human
activities. an immense clustering of
utilities II is as unfinished as ever:
the builders roads still run out and
end in mid-ield in their old fash
lon the various enterprises tumble
in the same hopeless contradiction
If anything intensified Preten-
tious villas jostle slums and public
house and tin tabernacle glover at
one another across the cat haunted
lot that intervenes. Roper's mead
Ows are now quite frankly a slum.
back doors and sculleries cape to-
wards the railway. their Yards are
hung with tattering washing un-
ashamed and there seem 10 be
moro boards b. the railway every
time I pass. advertising pills and
pickles. tonics and condiments. and
suchlike solicitudes Of a people with
no natural health nor appetite left
in them"
Zone For Business Interests.
a zone viii be planned for bust
ness districts where wholesale and
retail business. offices and public
buildings are permitted An indus
trial district Will be mapped out ror
industries and manufacturing enter
prises which will also have resi-
dental privileges Group house
zones will be planned where tene-
merit houses. double dwellings and
the like viii be permissible and pre-
ferred A single family district will
be mapped out in various sections
OF the city where the city planner
will request the council 20 allow
nothing 20 be built but single dwell
ings for home purposes while re-
strIcted neighborhood districts will
make II permissible for a few stores
and offices to be scattered through
out the neighbOrhood
Plans as outlined by the city plan
ner and his commission viii he sub
mitted 10 the council and city of
hcials which viu pass on them as 10
their legality and logic. These plans
will be worked into ordinances
which viii again be presented 10 the
council for their passage.
Among the important features
that the city planner will endeavor
70 accomplish as means of aiding
the city is the removal OF the Grand
Trunk tracks from the surface of
Division 81. and the erection of a
union depot They are of the opin-
ion that these two projects are es-
sential
During recent months many cities
have laid special stress on better
city planning Examples OF poorly
laid out cities throughout the coun-
try where the population has sprung
up rapidly has taught the careful
Observers 70 be- more persistent I'm
planning their cities in such a way
that the industrial and business dis
tricts will not conflict with resi-
Dental sections
Middle states IaN
Cities in the extreme east and
west have threshed the problems
concerning city planning out care
fully as statistics show while the
middle states have been lax on the
question This fact was an out
standing figures at the recent meet
ms helc az Niagara Falls y g.. May
26-21. when $50 delegates attended
the eleventh annual national con
vention on c.iy planning All coast
states We're well represented while
but one delegate. William Happ Of
South Bend attended from Indiana
and but one from Illinois. These
facts show that the central states
have not awakened 90 the great i'm
portance Of better city planning
The planning problems OF an N.
dustrial city ARE divided into two
broad groups not mutually exclusive