The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-13

for school buildings in desirable
and accessible locations.
Plan, plan, plan. but plar
ahead and be prepared for event
uaIities.
Land today may be taken by
fair purchase or the right OF
eminent domain at a price much
less to the city than it can five
years from now. A Key West
planning board would locate pros
psctive fire houses, possibly one
OF two sub-police stations, its city
Yards, its cemeteries, its streets
through land now salt pools OF
marshes, its future bathing
beaches say its new city hall
and its court house and post of
fiee--all of these, and doubtless
many more at points that at once
would serve the public con-
venience and meet the futures
demands.
To be sure, locate these items
now only on zoning map, but
assume title to the land at the
earliest possible day.
When fresh water comes from
the mainland, service doubtless
will require pumping. This is
more likely to mean storage in
elevated tanks. These tanks
ought to be located now, and
consideration given for their at
tractive characterization, especially
ia the residential sections.
Key West is flat land. The
pitch of the pipes for its future
sewage system will be so slight
as TO offer problem. This prob
lem viii be solved by a pumping
station where rotaries will force
the waste through submerged
pipes to safe distance out al
sea. Such a station might well
be isolated on a neighboring key,
or an island could be built upon
shadows mile off shore.
Plans for this health service
should be given consideration
now. Delay will cost more
money.
Flagler Avenue proud title the
Road to the Mainland will bear
will seem very narrow and fear
fully congested the moment it is
opened to traffic from all North
America. Through Key West
precincts in particular every
means should be taken without
delay to provide a boulevard OF
the amplest dimensions for this
tourist and business crush that is
to come.
! The time to plan is now, while
land at the roadside is doing on
the lists of the realtors.
Casa Marina that glotious
pile at the edge of the ocean
will be social center of the
travel world. It's approaches must
be needed before land prices are
forced by circumstances so high
condemnation proceedings will
reach outrageous levels.
Key Vests planning board
should educate the people on the
meaning and value of coming.
The zoning expert should at fire.
quent intervals go over every de-
tail of the map and the ordinance
with the planning board, the city
engineer and other interested
departments.
When the expert leaves place
to struggle ION its own, he
should leave the people possessed
|of all the reasons for the diff
ferent features. Community adj
ministration is essential. When
the people understand it, they
win support it and court cases
will be few.
"A planning board must be al
ways wide awake; it is expected
to keep in touch with develop
ments and tendencies and from
time to time make recommends
tions for changes in zoning lines.
The people of a given district
may petition for q change from
one type of district to another.
The rate of growth will decide
the frequency and the extent of
these changes.
It is better and it is safer to
zone conservatively in the first
instance; to include a large area
in business districts will produce
|stagnation. Homes will not be
erected in such districts and de-
|velopment for business purposes
is quite apt to be slow. If a rea-
sonabIe amount Of expansion is
provided for, the demand for
business land viii remain fairly
active. As more space IS needed
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