The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-05
Article No. 4
ZONINC ORDINANCES-TEM-
POHARY AND PERMANENT

Article No. 4
ZONING ORDINANCES-TEM-
PoflARY AND PERMANENT
Make not little plans; they
have no magic with which to stir
mems blood. Rather, make big
plans; aim high. "A noble, logical
diagram once recorded will be q
living thingi"
A temporary coming ordinance
! have said, holds growing cities
where they are, permitting all
nominal and regular procedure,
or, under appeal to a duly or
dained board, certain irregular
activities which will not meet OBJ
lection from 81 per cent of prop
erty owners, under oath, AUDITING
proposed building and use within
a front and side radius of 400
lineal; feet.
Out of temporary ordinance
a permanent bylaw attaining a
high degree of practical perfec-
ton will eventually grow. Per-
manent ordinance runs hand in
hand with coming map and "use
map. The board of city council
will accept the twain at the self
same time, and in the ordinance
itself it is written that the map
and the law are inter operative.
The ordinance interprets the
map: the board of appeal inter-
prets the ordinance: the ordi-
nance may be only changed upon
petition and a two-thirds vote OF
the city council sitting after hear
ing as a whole.
"A permanent ordinance is wide
enough in its scope to cover every
reasonable requirement for years
and years to come. Shorn OF
technicalities, the nature of such
an ordinance embodies all plan
ming board has thought or
dreamed of; it deals under cloak
of legal phrases with possibilities
almost unbelievable; in essence,
though many times not by direct
statements, the ordinance will
cover all of these:
Through routes and main high
ways to various parts of the city.
The planning of areas tributary
to these main ways.
The system by which all these
ways may be protected after once
being laid down.
Lines of buildings.
Transportation routes.
Location, securing and de-
velopment of school and other
public building sites.
Fairgrounds. parks and boule-
wards.
The preservation of water
front areas and inland water
areas for the use of the people
in the ages to come.
The proper tie-up with all
this as water sewer, gas cleo
tric,and other forms of service.
Housing. the solution of which
will have more to do with the
future Of cities than anyone yet
has appreciated.
Protection of all things which
are done, or ought to be. for the
comfort, happiness and general
welfare, as well as eternal vigil
|ance against entertainments in
the form of billboard, shacks,
and similar nuisance menaces.
And lastly, zoning itself, with
special reference to the protec-
ton of homes, the preservation
of property values, and the pro-
per INTERPRETATION of residence,
commerce and industry with the
city plan.
In substance, a permanent zon-
ing ordinance aims TO prevent q
multitude Of sins It aims to
produce growth according to de-
sign. II win operate in Key
West, and in the impending years
Key West, starting now, viii be
a city beautiful, living growing,
building under zoning laws Of the
people, by the people and for the
people of this gem Of a city that
is to be.
The permanent coming ordi-
nance is of quite different breed
than the temporary act, covering
in detail the grounds roughed out
by the latter law. It defines one
and two family, semi detached,
row and apartment houses.
1t defines lots; private and COM
munity garages: front, side and
rear yards: inner and outer
courts: the height Of buildings,
accessory and non-conforming
use. Non-comforting use" is a
''use Of . building or land which
does not agree with the use re-