Evening star., 1927-05-08
CITY PLANNERS WILL ADVANCE
PLANS FOR GREATER CAPITAL

covering Al cities and more than so
unincorporated towns. This commits
sion is said to be the first official
regional planning commission in the
entire country. 1t gives its attention
to highways, transport, zoning, parks,
water conservation, floor control and
sanitation.
Howard +. Long of Tonawanda, n.
T., another speaker tomorrow after.
noon. Is secretary of the Niagara
Frontier Planning Board, which
serves the counties of Erie and Mag
ara, including cities and % villages
The plan which is being fostered by
this planning board proposes to de-
velop new communicating highways
parks, rapid transit facilities, regional
zoning to provide for the proper To-
cation of industry and residential
tareas, the location of bridges within
the region and across the Niagara
River to Canada, the furtherance of
parkways, boulevard extensions,
water supply, sewage disposal and
harbor and canal improvements.
History OF Progress.
At the Monday evening session DIR.
John Nolen Of Cambridge, Mass, pres
ident of the conference, who has made
plans for many se1f-contained COM
munities, such as the town of Marie
mont, Ohio, which have been laid out
before construction, will present
brief history of the last 90 years
progress in city planning. When it
is remembered that the Mcmillan
Park report on the District of Column
bia, in 1901, and written by Chairman
Moore of the Fine Arts Commission,
was a pioneer in planning reports
and that it was not until 1905 that we
began to find published reports on
different phases of planning from the
different cities in the country, it will
be realized that the history of the
last 20 years is enormously significant.
AT this session Lewis Mumford
author, will attempt prediction for
the next 20 years in city planning.
Tuesdays program is rich in emf
nent speakers and in subject matter
of interest to Washington Among
them is Edward Nj. Bassett, whose
legal advice aided In the presentation
of the coming case which was finally
upheld by the Supreme Court and so
entrenched the coming law in the Dis
trict of Columbia. At the morning
session regional highways, parks and
parkways win be discussed by Col.
Sidney ID. Waldron, chairman of the
Detroit Rapid Transit Commission,
and Henry A. Barker. chairman of
the Providence City Plan Commission.
OF Especial Interest.
OF especial interest to Washington
at this time when we are engaged
on a program of park, school and
playground site acquisition, and with
a bill to be pressed in the next Con-
gress for $10,000,000 program of
park site purchase before the de-
sirable tracts have been despoiled.
will be the address on Tuesday at
II O'Clock by Alfred Bettman of Gin
cinnati, Ohio, past president of the
Ohio State Conference on City Plan
ming. Mr.. Bettman was called TO
Washington in 1917 as special assist
ant to the Attorney General in the
WAR Division in charge of the en-
forcement of war laws. such as es-
pionage act and was member of the
advisory committee on Zoning and
city planning of the Department OF
Commerce and a co-author on the
model city planning act issued by
that department.
At the civic luncheon on Tuesday,
the principal speaker will be George
McAneny, formerly president Of the
Borough of Manhattan. who Is a
member of the board of regional plan
Of New York and member OF the
general committee on the plan ana
survey of New York and acting
chairman of the subcommittee on
distribution of population.
Two Interesting Speakers.
Two of the interesting speakers on
Wednesday will be Eugene $. Taylor,
director of the Chicago plan commits
sion. and Charles II. Cheney, city plan
eonsultant, Palos Verdes Estate, Cali
fornia.
Mr.. Taylor has had most import
ant executive position with the plan
ming commission which resulted from
the work Of the late Daniel III. Burn
ham of Chicago and Mr.. Delano. Mr..
Taylor's experience in connection with
the work that has been done in Chi
cago by the Chicago plan commission
will be of great value in our work for
Washington.
Mr.. Cheney was born of American
parents in Rome, 1884. He graduated
in architecture and engineering from
the University of California and
studied I'm the Ecole des Beaux Arts,
Paris, as well az In principal cities of
Italy. Spain and England. He is a
traffic expert and author of major
traffic street plan, boulevard and park
system of Portland, Greg; of Santa
Barbara, Calf, and of numerous city
planning and coming laws and ordi-
'nances adopted In California.
The visiting city planners will be