Evening journal., 1922-11-24

as good a sales proposition TO make
to prospective clients as competing
builders, architects and real estate
owners in zoned towns.
IAN occasional sale lost now and
then to a rival in a zoned suburb
and the increasing reluctance on the
part OF landing interests to make
loans on unprotected property-or if
making loans, their discrimination
in favor of protected localities with
reference TO both the interest rate
charged and the o loaned
considerations like these are prov
ing more powerful than words in &C
tually stirring unzoned towns to &C
ton.
Though these communities have
done nothing to adopt coming. it is
not quite exact to say that they r
unzoned. The adoption OF coming
by neighboring communities has in
a sense already zoned them. With
out their knowing it, they have been
placed. as it were, in the position
Of unrestricted districts to their
neighbors. Though they them
selves may not have moved. their
neighbors have. Today. therefore,
they are not at all in the position
they were in years ago when build
ing vas unregulated everywhere.
Then, due to the universal lack OF
control, they stood on a par with
their neighbors-ownership of prop
erty within their boundaries was ac-
companled by neither privileges nor
handlcaps not accompanying it else
But now this has all been chang
The fact that property is pro-
elsewhere makes its owner
ship in those places more desirable:
that it is not protected here makes
It's ownership locally less attractive.
To permit u neighbors' garages
and factories to locate ihdiscrimin-
ately in our residence districts.
while they exclude ours. can have
but one RESULT destroys the mar
Setability Of u residence property
At the same time that it makes our
competitors more salable.
"Zoning is both a positive and a
negative factor in the developments
IF a community-It encourages SUI
types OF development; it dis
,ourages inferior types of develop
nent. It's mandatory provisions
,blige things to be done which other
wise would not be done; inhabitions
things from being done
which would otherwise be done. It
stimulates, checks, guides-al to the
benefit and lasting good of the
community.
AS time passes and the lines be-
different districts become B
more tightly drawn, the develop
nent of each district being shaped
" the regulations, the benefits con-
erred by zoning will accumulate. in
,reasing with the years-correcting
,ast errors. revealing and realizing
lew opportunities, all the time OPP
for the betterment Of the
ommunity and enabling II ulti-
nately to become q community
UGH as without coming it could new
r have hoped TO become"
w. c. Corey asked Mr.. Swan 10
something Of the negative, or
pposing, side to the coming system.
Ir. Swan said the only opposition
ncountered in cities where the plan
been actively urged came from
men who had some selfish object
n view and not the general good Of
municipality.
Robbers do not like laws against
.obbery, nor murderers laws against
MURDER he said. Men who will
rain money at the expense Of the
'mmunity's welfare do not like zon-
Joseph Bancroft asked about prop
already built that would VIC
ate a coming system.
"Zoning is not retroactive" Mr..
wan replied
Lieutenant Governor Bush asked
oncerning State laws for coming. and
vas informed several States. not
bly, New York had passed laws
permitting cities. towns and villages
o adopt zone restrictions.
In response 10 a question as to
property values. asked by Charles
:. Kurtz, the speaker eaid, he knew
II no instance where values had
zen decreased, and many where
hey had been increased. Mr.. Swan
lso declared, in reply to another