The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-02
REALTORS WOULD ADOPT PORTLAND
 zON|NG SYSTEM Committee Is Appointed to Take Up Matter With Organizations of City
 for Consideration

City zoning. with the idea of reaching iome decision and to recommend some sourse to the city commission. was the lh.ef topic for discussion at the Real Estate Exchange meeting yesterday at he Southern Club
 After hearing the report of Jerome Fucker. chairman of the city zoning ! committee of the exchange, the mem , scrs voted to adopt the report and in- structed the president to appoint committee of one to appear before each pf the civic and luncheon. clubs of the sity ard explain what city zoning is and what it will mean to Birming ham,. hr. Tucker reported that the commit tee was welded to no one particular plan for Birmingham, but that they be- iieved the plan adopted by Portland, Ore, was the best for this city to fol- low
 The Portland plan provides that a general committee composed of the city authorities. the city engineer, rity planning expert, and a representa- tive of each civic body for a general committee. In this city, MT. Tucker suggested the committee might con sist of the city commission, the city
 
 Der of Commerce, the Civic Association, the Real Estate Exhange. and other civic clubs. together with representa- tive of the architects.
 This general committee might divide the city in a number of subdivisions or neighborhoods, and each of these divi- sions appoint a subcommittee which shall rule as to what use the district be restricted.
 ,hoc of rleted, the general committee could hold meetings open to the public, at which a fuller and finer discussion of the plan as whole could be had.
 PORTLAND PLAN
 The Portland plan provides for eight classes of property, as follows:
 Class 1, single family dwellings only; class 2, all kinds of dwellings, includ- ing apartments. hotels and flats; Class g ordinary retail stores, offices and dwellings,; Class 4. all kinds of retail businesses, ordinary wholesale busi- n.sses and others, except industries and dwellings,; Classes and 6, special dis a1icts for hospitals, public and semi public buildings; Class z, industrial Buildings for ordinary but not obnox- dous industries, factories, warehouses;, Glass 8, obnoxious and odor producing Industries.
 The Portland plan provides that no dwellings be erected in the two indus trial districts limits the heights of buildings and provides a simple plan of ; re- classification by a trial before the general committee similar to trial by jury.
 Tn answer to questions as to the good of the plan. the committee tabulated the advantages as follows:
 The city zoning plan stabilizes and protects property values and invest nents; protects the maintenance Of homes and home neighbohoods, offers a safe locality where industries may be cooated without fear of protest and with every facility to do business; pre- vents undue congestion of population; insures better sanitary conditions; sim p;ifies the problem of street traffic regulations; renders possible great economic in the paving of city streets through a decrease of roadway's width, where sizes and number of buildings arc limited; insures permanence to the character of districts and encourages orderly development and many other advantages that will suggest them selves upon consideration.
 This report was discussed at length .and it was decided to accept and file it.