The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-22

have been completed and accept
led. This work may take year.
The temporary rules require
hearings. These hearings cannot
be held until 51qs of the owners
OF property within 400 feet in any
block where some structure out
|of the common is projects, shall
have signed petition and waiv-
er, in the presence of witness and
attested to by notary or a JUS
tice.
The clause SO acts in the tenn
porary ordinance as to give all
the most interested abutters a
fair and reasonable right to OBJ
ject or to favor. 1t will prevent
"a man whose pulse beats in his
pocketaok from jamming a fill
ing ST ion within few feet of
a porch. 1t will compel public
garage to keep out of residence
district 1t will allow community
garages, up to a reasonable num-
Der in a group or unit, to be
erected in conveniently located
exclusive home sections.
1t will hurt the feelings of the
ey-chaser who seeks to put a
noisy and noisome automobile
repair shop next door to Sum
day church service, or a clatter-
ing factory or bar room be-
meath the open windows of a
school. All of this the temporary
zDning ordinance will safely and
surely do.
But the attorney who draws it
UP must mind his P's and Q's.
That. however; Is no problem. 1t
is being done successfully every
day.
With a satisfactory temporary
ordinance in effect, and embody-
ing penalties to prove that the
business is real, work toward the
end of a permanent law will fol-
low in careful precision.
/. Every building in the city must
be mapped.
This sounds like large order
and full of trouble. But it isn't.
For practically every building in
Key West is mapped today-by
the City Engineer or Surveyor
and the Board of Assessors have
blueprints and originals.
Common practice is to segre-
gate these sectional maps into
wards, or groups of precincts or
voting districts, not overlapping
nor duplicating at all. Get. then,
the assistance of the principal of
the high school. and request that
he select two of his most intelli-
gent boys Tor girls have in some
cases been used for the work.
for each ward in the Island City.
At given date the boys will 60
forth for few hours a day, when
and as they wish, and they will
carry, preferably affixed with
clamps to small arm boards, their
ward maps.
Instructions from the Chairman
of the Planning Board will be
definite: the boys are to be paid
a satisfactory wage for what they
are to do; they are to do some
thing for the permanent benefit
of their home communicates
the good of their brothers and
their sisters yet unborn; for the
good of all time. They will take.
pride in this. Advance publicity
in the classroom and the news
paper will prepare all parties in
terested for putting extra effort
into the important work.
Further: the young men or
women are to check up carefully
every building as indicated on
the assessors maps; they are to
designate by pre-arranged char
acters which are wood or stone
or brick or stucco: whether the
homes are for one family or two
or more; how many stories high;
the nature of the construction of
every garage and outbuilding:
how many cars each garage con-
tains; which are hotels and how
constructed-in full, care and de-
tail. And if buildings are not
shown on the blueprints, the stu
dent workers are directed to
draw them crudely on, as to
shape and location in the plot
ting.
In Key West this work should
be carried to completion in
week or ten days time. The de-
tails. all assembled, 60 back to the
planning board. and are critically
examined by each member. Dis
cussion will reveal any errors the
young tabulators may have made.
(Contfnasd On Page Four)