Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-30
CITY PLAN BOARD MAY
GET $1,000 FOR WORK
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Transportation facilities will have
to be increased in capacity and con-
siderably improved in quality to take
these men back and forth quickly
and comfortably between their
homes and their work, and to care
for the increments in travel from
other sources which inevitably ac-
company growth in an industrial
| community.
This growth creates demand for
business establishments mad munich
pal facilities; for more and larger
sewers, a practical plan for the dis
posal of sewage, new pavements and
an increase in and better distribu-
ton of the creage devoted to parks
and Fairgrounds. All : of these
things tend to advance private and
public welfare in the city and to in
crease property values. They create
they should be so planned as to
create mor than they corsume.
These improvements cost money,
which must be secured through tax
alton. The proper way of providing
this money from year to year in the
requisite amounts, is to plan ahead,
NOW and in a comprehensive way,
determining what steps should be
taken each year and, as far as pos
sible, creating values concurrently
with anticipated increases in the
municipal budget.
Perth Amboy cannot afford to
grow in a h~aphazard way. There
must be purposeful planning, II the
city is to escape the common evils of
poor bringing up"
Residence and business districts
may be ruined or seriously injured
through invasion by harmful activi-
ties, If the city does not take suit
able steps to restrain them.
Perth Amboy has districts which
are only awaiting the stimulating ef-
feet of improved pubic facilities, in
Guiding the opening of direct and
adequate arteries of communication,
to justify by their rapid develop
mept, some consi, able expendi-
lures of money. Proper planning
will make good municipal invest
ments of such projects.
BY creating and adhering to a
comprehensive and forward-looklng
City Plan, Perth Amboy may :
tablish strategic sequen .es in which
the various desirable improvements
will follow one another according to
the order of urgency, and will be
so scheduled that they may be eco
nomically financed and constructed,
SO as to secure the maximum OF
beneficial effect for the entire COM
munity.
Proper planning will give Perth
| Amboy the information necessary
for acquiring at the most favorable
times those lands needful for
| pal improvements like street cross
ings, parks, school sites and other
| public works. The city should Sc
lect periods when the prices of ma
| terials and labor are low, for 1nftlat-
in programs for the construction OIL
| sewers, pavements and buildings
The example of the Catholic Church
Can owner and builder of hfgh-grade
| buildings on an extensive scale) may
| be cited in this connection. The sa-
gacious policy of those in charge OF
| building programs for this body Is
indicated by the predominance OF
churches and parochial schools IN
| building construction reports, DURING
| times of business depression when
| competition is keen among contrac-
| tors, when prices are low.
Such a program requires a com
| pIete knowledge of future require
ments, a carefully digested plan and
| occasionally some present sacrifice
| but it returns la ge dividends. 1t Il
| safe to say that 20 per cent or the
| cost of construction would be saved
| by undertaking public works at low
! point of the price cycle, instead 81
| distributing them uniformly; as re-
suits when works are not started un-
til desperately neeCed.
| modern economic thought faVors the
| inauguration of public works dur1ne
| times of business depression o the
sake of the relief of the otherwise
| unemployed. -,
A comprehensive city plan will,
| place at the disposal of this and
future city administrations a cieai
| picture of future requirement. as
| substitute for the uncertainty ano
waste usually accompanying discon'
nected and hasty planning. 1t VII
| be a schedule for furnishing to thu
people of the community, enjoyment
! Of physical facilities, protectlon II
| the possession of property, and othel
municipal benefits, the profits IRON
Whfch-tangible and intangible-Wll
be far in excess of the cost. Ever
/ this is not all. In addition to max
ing the city a more desirable place
in which to live and do business,
| proper city plan pays its own wa!
| in terms of actual cash. The lncre'
ment in property values which sure
ly accompanies a program or wiseil
| determined and executed improve
/ ment win be more than sufficient Il
carry and amortize those BOND is
sues which will be necessary.
The purpose of this report is U
outline in a general way n NOR
pressing problems which confron
GPerth Amboy, the Investigations tina
| should be made to study them, an
| the procedure to be followed II
their solution. A complete invest
| cation would include the topics list
| ed on the page following:
THE KID OF PLAN WHICF
PERTH AMBOY NEEDS
Elements 81 a Perth Amboy Git!
Plan
Generl Survey.
Population Distribution.
Garbage, Waste and Snow Re
moval.
Water Supply.
Schools.
Harbor Developments.
Land Values and Tax Equaliza'