The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-11-09
NEARLY HALF
PEOPLE NOW IN
Z0NED CITIES
Department of Commerce
Cites Growth of Plan Be-
ing Urged in Bismarck
PRACTICE is GROWING

Washington, D. c., Nov. 9.-More
than 22,O00,O00 people, comprising Az
per cent of the urban population OF
the United States, live in 1873 zoned
cities, towns and villages, according
to a statement made public by Divi-
sion of Building and Housing of the
Department Of Commerce.
During the first eight months OF
this year 81 municipalities, with
more than 100000 population, have
adopted coming ordinances. This in
dictates the greatest progress in zon-
ing that has ever been made during
u similar period. More than two
thirds of the 1873 zoned municipal
tiles have been zoned since Septem-
Der, 1921.
Keynote of Zoning.
Neghborliness in the use of land
is said to be the keynote Of coming.
The home owner is protected from
the intrusion Of the junk yard which
for no good reason might be moved
into his neighborhood, and business
and shopping districts are protected
against noisy factories. Industrial
Liants have greater freedom in Sc
lecting sites convenient to good
transportation. Such measures should
provide for the use Of the different
kinds of land and districts within
city for the purposes to which they
are best adapted, and allow for or
derby growth Of commercial and in
dustrial districts. They accomplish
their purposes by regulating the
height Of buildings, the area of the
land that they may cover, and the
use to which they may be put in the
different districts Of the city or
town. The coming ordinance is gen
orally an auxiliary to the city plan,
and helps TO provide for the orderly
growth Of the city along lines that
will bring the most satisfactory re-
suits to all concerned.
Revised figures that on January l,
1923, 129 municipalities had adopted
coming regulations. During the year
81 more, some large and some small,
located north, south, east and west,
have been added to the list. OF the
GO cities in the United States with
over 100000 population, SO have zon-
ing ordinances in effect. Chicago,
Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Kansas City,
NO., Seattle, Providence, Columbus,
Worcester, Grand Rapids and
Youngstown are among the larger
cities which have adopted coming or
dinances this year. The smallest
community to adopt a coming ordi-
nance in 1923 had only 420 inhab,-
tants, according to the last census.
Twenty-one towns and villages of
less than 10000 inhabitants adopted
coming regulations in 1875. Seven
teen communities with 10000 to Co.
600 population, and 16 cities with
more than $4,000 population also
zoned during the year.
In the number Of places zoned,
New Jersey leads with 81; New York
is. second with 80; Illinois, third with
%; California, fourth, with II; Ohio,
fifth, with 10; Massachusetts,, sixth,
with IL; Wisconsin, seventh, with 10,
and Missouri, eighth, with four. In
diana, Kansas and Michigan have
three each; Rhode Island and Wash
ington have two each; and Georgia,
Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ten
nessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia
have one each. The District Of
Columbia also is zoned,
More Enabling Legislation.
More new state coming enabling
legislation has been PASSED in 1928
than usual, and the standard state
coming enabling act which was pre-
pared by the Department Of Com
merce. was used to greater or less
extent in most of the laws. Con-
necticut, Delaware, Iowa, North Car.
olina. North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania and Wyoming passed
important coming enabling acts, and
a number Of other states passed leg.
islation supplementing or amending
existing laws. The state Of Wis
consin has passed an act granting
to counties the power to zone.
The complete list Of zoned munich
palities, as of September /, 1923,
with references to the state acts un-
der which zoning is permitted, may
be obtained from the Division of
Building and Housing Of the De-
partment Of Commerce, Washington,
d. C.