The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-12-10
Afford TELLS
LOCAL PROGRESS
City Officials Take Part in
Regional Meeting At
Hotel Sherman.
GAIN WIDER ROADWAY
Major Street Plan Begun Here
Explained as a Part of the
Regional Development.

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yesterday and extending through to-
day, and Kenosha is taking an i'm
portant part. Kenosha territory "
ing adjacent to the lake is an i'm
portant unit in the greater regional
plan started by Chicago leaders and
already carried on to promising de-
gree, with an ultimate aim toward
unified, continuous system of lake
front, boulevards and parks extend
| ing from Gary, Indiana, on the south,
through Kenosha county on the north.
Kenosha's representatives who are
taking part in the two-day meeting
in Chicago are: c. M. Osborn, Keno
sha city manager; w. H. Afford, presi-
dent of Kenosha city council; J. M.
Albers, secretary Kenosha Plan COM
mission; Robert M. Smith, city en-
gineer; William Luke of Wheatland,
vice president of the Regional Plan
ners for Kenosha county; F. A. Carl
son and Lawrence. Hastings.
The opening days session of the
meeting brought the announcement
that counties around Chicago have
been quietly acquiring mile after mile
of rights of way for system of wider
highways and much of it without cost
| ing a cent to the citizens at large.
100 Foot Roads Acquired.
"Subdividers are now required to
provide highways 100 feet. wide, at
least on all main roads, and every
cross road mile apart, when he plats
land" Commissioner Frederick w. PEN
field of the Cook county board told the
planners. He announced that 40 miles
of this wide roadway had already
been acquired as a basis for the
Regional roadway scheme of wider
pavements for this area.
| Henry G. lander reported the full
support of the subdividers, not only
in carrying out these provisions, but
in going even further to maintain ade-
quate space for future pavement needs
| by providing for a setback of new
! buildings in all main roads already
| fronted by subdivisions which have
not given the wide thoroughfares. Eu-
gene Taylor, manager of the Chicago
Plan commission, insisted that the
completion of the city plan COM
prised only the first step in carrying
out regional coming.
I W. H. Afford of Kenosha, president
of the city council and a member of
the Kenosha City Plan commission, adj
dressed the meeting yesterday, in
which he told what Kenosha is doing
to carry out the major street plan
even before the balance of the gen.
i oval r1a,o yo1,1ofaJ
"ln Kenosha we started to carry out
certain features of our plan before
all the drawings were completed"
said Mr.. Afford. GAS soon as we agreed
on the major streets and how wide
they were needed, we made every new
building along these streets conform
! to the new width. When we start the
actual widening program there will be
very few buildings in the way of i'm
| provement. And our people cooperate
when they know what it is we are
driving at. One large company, ready
to build a new factory sliced off
seventeen feet from the front of the
building to conform to the plan"
For the first time in the history of
city regional planning there was a
direct tie up with the public health
angle of such planning. Led by Col.
c.. C. Pierce, senior surgeon for this
district of the u. S. Public Health
Service, more than 100 public health
officers from the suburban towns and
the counties of Indiana, Illinois and
Wisconsin, attacked the subject of CO.
ordinated health work as vital part
of the Regional Plan for this area.
For Wisconsin's part of the region,
DR.. C. A. Harper, state health officer,
pledged support particularly in test
ing of milk cows, and DR.. w. F. King,
state health officer of Indiana, told
of plans to coordinate northern In
diana disease prevention with north
ern Illinois.
Pollution of natural water supplies
was condemned by Langdon Pearse,
chief sanitary engineer, Chicago Sani-
! tary district, and the problem of sup
plying clean water to the suburbs not
adjacent to Lake Michigan was de-
scribed by C. B. Burdick, an outstand-
ing water supply engineer.
Testing COWS for tuberculosis, as a
regional policy was approved by this
health congress, and the fight led by
DR.. Herman N. Bnndesen, commission
er of health for Chicago, gained many
strong advocates.
i For the first time the full time and
| part time health officers heard their
legal powers recited in non-technical
language. Henry P. Chandler, a di-
rector Of the Regional Plan associs-
ton, performed monumental service
in so coding these powers that they
may be broadcast and understood by
the 100000 population of the Region.
Last nights session revealed the
fact that the Region is being carefully
mapped from up-to-date data, and that
this accurate base map will be avail
able by April / at the latest. Co.
operating in this work are the u. S.
Geological survey, the Illinois Geolo-
gical survey and corresponding de-
partments in Indiana and Wisconsin,
and the actual drafting work is made
possible by the Chicago Commonwealth
club and the University of Chicago.
i Estimates of the 1850 population of
the Chicago Region run from 5000, 900
to 10000 900. To get actual facts the
/ Regional Planners are bringing to-
i gether the estimates of the many
agencies which have made them, and
are preparing maps showing where and
how great the population will prob
ably be at the next three census years,
1890, 1919 and 1850.
j Some of the noted speakers heard
at last nights session we're: Mai.
Rufus W. Putnam, charles E. Merri-
am, j. Paul Goode and James A Field,