Evening journal., 1922-11-24
SWAN SHOWS
BENEFITS Of
CITY coming
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to attend this afternoons luncheon
or the meeting following it.
A change was made in eeating the
guests at today's luncheon. Small
round tables replaced the usual long
Speakers table" at the rear OF the
room. About these were seated Mr..
Swan, the Mayor, CoIncilmen Abra-
hams, McManus. Howard NJ. Ward,
president of Council; Fred II. Cav
throp, president, and William T.
Budd, secretary OF the-Chamber OF
Commerce; William Il. Foster, presi-
dent of Rotary; Major Joseph C.
Lawson. president Of The Kiwanis; ].
Edmund Fuller, president of the
Lions; EliwoOd Souder. president OF
the Board of Education; Lieutenant
Governor ]. Danforth Bush, w. A.
Speakman. president, and Joseph
Bancroft, member OF the Board Of
Harbor Commissioners also were
present.
Mr.. Swan said Wilmington's pres
ent generation was informally fol-
lowing a general line of city plan
ming. He praised the Marine Ter
minal' Public Building and ,other
structures as admirably located and
ably designed. He knew of no city
the size Of Wilmington that had
made better use Of its natural adj
v%antages, and none that would lend
itself better to a municipal coming
system. He said Wilmington's
general layout was similar to that OF
Newark. n. J. After telling how
many acres of marsh lands at New
ark had been utilized through a zon-
ing system as a valuable manufac-
turing district. he declared similar
development could be had from the
marsh lands Of Wilmington.
In his address at the Chamber or
Commerce luncheon Mr.. Swan said
in part:
The impression seems 10 prevail,
and very justihably So. too, that the
unzoned community is at n very
serious disadvantage as compared
with the community that has adopt
ed a coming ordinance. Especially
II klAo ~ Al AAAt AhNA1 VI AANAA bfNA
tan areas with numerous suburbs.
IN such instances. the prospec-
tive home buyer is more and more
often asking himself the question,
why should I buy my home IN
unzoned town, where my house
may at any moment be hauked with
apartments. factories or garages and
It's value seriously impaired. when
for the same price 1 can buy just
as good a house in a town that
thinks enough OF it's homes to PRO
tect them with the strong arm of
the law against injurious neghbors?
The mortgage lender, too, is with
increasing frequency asking HIM
What should l lend my money
on property which may at any time
its value so deprecated through
construction Of Objectionable
neighboring buildings that / may be
forced 10 institute foreclosure pro-
ceedings and buy the property my
self in order to protect my equity,
in an adjoining suburb L can
invest my money in real estate mort
with the community itself |
guaranteeing the value of the prop
erty. as it were against premature
depreciation through precipitate and
unwarranted charges in the build
environment by preventing the
intrusion of undesirable develop
ment in the n~eighborhood.
THE practical effect Of these CON
siderations is most interesting. The
zoned localities are not only absorb
ing the better grade of developments
at the expense OF the uuzoned sub
urbs. but they are forcing the un-
desirable types of development into
the unzoned towns The builders,
architects and real estate owners in
unzoned towns are with increasing
persistence urging their councils 10
adopt zoning so that they may have