The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-17
Article No. l
ZONING. CITY PLANNING
Where there is no vision,

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! ZONING. CITY PLANNING
Where there is no vision,
the people perish"
City Planning will not wreck
/ the Golden Rule. 1t is not i'm
/ possible; is not myth; is not
destructive; but City Planning is,
lin the public mind, considerably
;camouflaged under the name OF
iZoning.
/ Today, more than twenty five
millions of Americans are living
under that best which Zoning
can give them.
/ Today over 500 cities and towns
are zoned under a form of ordin-
ance that lays no heavy finger
upon the pulse or the purse
Istrings of the public, the citizenry
iof our every day.
/ In addition to the zoned cities
land towns which are better and
happier and are thriving on its
benefits to the country, more
than 200 others have coming plans
under discussion.
| Key West should be, and must
be, numbered with this enlight-
!ened host.
The first section of any stand
ardized coming ordinance will
read about as follows; and as 1t
reads, SO in nutshell coming is
defined:
ITO promote the health, safety
morals, convenience and general
welfare of its inhabitants, to les
sen danger from fire, congestion
land confusion, and to improve
and beautify the community,
pursuant to the (generaD laws OF
the Commonwealth, and all
amendments thereto, the use
construction, repair and alteration
of buildings or structures and
the use of premises in said COM
munity are hereby restricted and
regulated as hereinafter pro-
vided"
| From this paragraph it will be
seen that a. Code of Building
Laws is essential, and that, to
protect property owners, an Act
iof the Great and General Court
is desirable. Throughout the
country, the Supreme Courts
have handed down decisions
bearing upon the validity of zon.
ing ordinances, and these deci-
sions have been and most as
| suredly will be continually fav-
orable as upholding the innate
wishes of liberty loving people
to have and to pleasurably and
profitably hold that which they
possess: to grant more light and
air, better conditions for the
children, greater security in the
home (which in many crowded
districts today is lacking wher
fire menaces; to extend, withal
the widest privileges making fol
better civilization.
i have before me as write
with numerous other pamphlets
| a copy of the 64-page booklet COW
| ering coming in Boston. Beneath
the city seal of the Hub of the
Universe" appears "ForeWord
from which the following i:
quoted:
/ ssOn the eve of celebrating, il
! 1880, the tercentenary of tbs
founding of Boston, ZoninE
Plan has been made for directing
the more orderly growth of thu
city during the centuries t.
come than has prevailed in thu
past three hundred years. Will
equal rights for all and specia
privileges for none. the Plar
will protect every district from
detrimental property uses, pre-,
| serve home neighborhoods, en-
courage the most valuable de
velopment of business and pro
mote sound industrial expan
/ Sion".
That paragraph. in a way
seems to me to be more explana.
tory of the aims and purposes o.
city planning than is the typica
Introductory section of a more
or less standardized zoning ord
| nance quoted earlier in this art
Iicle. But each supplements the