Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-01
ZONING DECREE
WILL BE ISSUED
IN FEW MONTHS
Plan Commission Works Out
Scheme to Guide City
Development.

A preliminary draft Of the zoning or
dance which the city plan commission
will recommend to the city council
should be completed within the next
eight or nine months Robert 81. Whit
ten Of Cleveland, newly appointed con-
sultant, told the city plan commission
at his first meeting with it Tuesday aft
ernoon 1t will be Mr.. Whitten's duty
to make q study of the city and aid the
commission in deciding what restrictions
shall be placed in the coming measure.
This will be the most important part Of
the commissions work, consisting Of FIX
ing boundaries within which only Ger
tain kinds Of buildingsE and uses Of
buildings shall be permitted.
Mr.. Written said that he believed the
city should have the zoning ordinance
passed within a year, the four months
aMer preparation Of the preliminary draft
being devoted to public hearings. He
counseled against piecemeal attempts to
restrict buildings and their uses mean
while. The city council frequently has
before It ordinances designed to prevent
the encroachment of industry upon resi-
Dental districts, one such measure being
in committee now. Mr.. Written ad-
vised that all such matters, unless in
cases of great emergency, be left until
the general plan is worked out.
One Of the most important things the
commission can do at the present time
and in all of it's work, Mr.. Written said,
is to properly guide the development OF
outlying districts.
OBJECTS TO CRAZY
QUILT SYSTEM.
4 M1-@N- FF,w
agreed, asserting:
1--WE want no more crazy quilts lik1
that all the way between Noble street and
the north city limits"
The commission for some time has been
insisting that streets in plats Of real
estate brought before 1t be at least eighty
six feet wide Heretofore it has been al
most the universal practice to provide
only for forty-f streets. In some in
stances where the throughfares are
deemed likely to become important the
commission has been holding out for
one hundred foot streets. All plats Of
territory within the city or within five
miles of the city limits must be ap'
proved by the commission before they
can be fled with the county recorder.
MONUMENT PLACE
BUILDINGS.
In order that the controversy over the
nelgnL OF buildings IN hOHuiHeuL AdCS
may be brought to an early settlement,
the commission decided to ask the board
OF control of the Soldiers and Sailors
Monument and the property owners
around the Circle to each appoint a cor
petent architect to meet with Mr.. Written
to discuss the matter. A number Of big
building projects are said to be held up
because Of the present eightysix foot
building limit in the Circle.
An attempt was made several months
ago TO get the city council to pass an or
dinance raising the limit to 124 feet,
which would permit an average ten to
twelve story building. The present limit
is six average stories, Patriotic societies
opposed the measure on the ground that
higher buildings would dwarf the monu-
ment and the council dropped the matter.
Since then proponents Of a higher limit
have been trying to convince city officials
and the public that a reasonable increase
would not injure the monuments appear
ance but on the other hand would per
nit the erection Of beautiful modern
buildings in place Of some of the present
old structures.