Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-04
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
Editorial Common From Other Newspapers.
ZONING PAYS

Zoning has come to stay, for it is proving to
be good business. The Board of Taxes and AS
sessment of New York City is, each year, IN
creasing the assessed valuation of thousands Oh
properties as a result OF Dement'S from zonlns-
Curiously, out of the thousands of protests which
the Board of Taxes and Assessment receives
each year against increases in assessed valua-
tions, virtually none have been against the in
creases made on account of coming oenehts'
Other cities are already beginning to report the
same effects and experience.
Zoning saves money. In Newark the city OF
hcials are saving thousands Of dollars a year IN
the extensions of the sewer systems, the water
and gas systems and in the grading, paving,
grouping and planting of new streets, because
development of property that VIII have TO De
provided for. Consequently, the previous al
lowances for unknown future requirements can
be largely avoided.
Everywhere that coming ordinances are IN
effect the real estate men are enthusiastic ABOUT
them and use coming as one of their best taking
points in selling property. Newcomers 10 d
community who contemplate property purchases
frequently ask the realtor If the community Is
Zoning is logical and inevitable. 1t is good
business. Within a few years coming ordinances
will be even than building OF SAM
The states have foreseen this and one after
another. starting with New YORK state. nate
passed Zoning Enabling Acts which delegate 10
cities and latterly TO towns and villages the
right to invoke the police power OF the state 70
property, in the best interest OF the community
Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Connecticut
New York. New Jersey, pennsylvania Ohlo'
Indiana, Illinois. Wisconsin, Michigan, mime
sofa and Missouri have all passed Zonlng Ehdo-
ling Acts. There are at least half a dozen HoIe
states especially in the West, that nave NOME
rule provisions which make state Enapllhs Acls
for Zoning unnecessary.
These State Enabling Acts are constantly IN
proving as a result of experience in the opera
ton of existing ordinances. They lay nucn
more insistence on the necessity of staplIlZihs
property values and wherever possible ehhancihS
them. They provide for the creation OF setoack
tuiIdinc lines; the creation OF Boards Of Appeals
To interpret the ordinance and, starting with the
tsct passed by the state of New York In l9ZV' they
provide much more effective machinery Tor the
enforcement of coming ordinances.
There are already over thirty zonlng oruL-
nances in effect. There are at least lO0 more
in process and there are several hundred mo-
| cities and towns that have coming under serious
consideration. a
In Northern New Jersey, where coming is par
ticularly active, on account of the town NAIase
and borough enabling act passed in the sprlhe
OF 1920, we find some twenty-five or thirty com-
munities zoned, or in the process OF zohihs
Curiously, several towns have been forceu nv
It against their will by the fact that all OF ths
surrounding communities were zoned or GONNA
and as the central town found it was gettlhs
their leavings il had to zone to protect ltseh.
The courts have been unanimously tavofaDl
to zoning and the forty or more decisions II
; legal cases arising from the New YORK Hohlhe
!, Ordnance have strongly upheld the principle o
a zoning and the New York ordinance in partlcu
lar. The decision of the court of appeals OF New
= York state handed down last July on the Lincoln
Trust case was remarkably favorable TO coming
when done logically and reasonably.
l The three recent decisions in New Jersey haV'
, been distinctly against piecemeal or discrimlna
tory coming but entirely favorable to compre
1 hensive coming in a scientific manner.-Nev
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