The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-27
Article No. 3

Article No. 8
MAPPING FOR A CITY PLAN
There is a tide in the affairs
of men which, taken at its turn
leads. to prosperity"
Zoning is not droning. A plan
ming board should receive nc
pay; it must expect, and it will
get, much hard work and acid
criticism. But the rainbow al
the end Of its thorny pathway is
genuinely real; and that group
of men, who, in Key West or any
city, see their dreams coming
true will reap greater than they
have sown; will richly reap in
their own time, and leave a
monument of increasing munich
pal beauty for their home COM
munity, Gem of the Southern
Seas.
If a planning board is consti-
tuted of five members, the first
well may be named for one
year, the second for two, and so
on. This enables opportunity for
adjustment, or for change in the
personnel. But enthusiasm for
their goal has seemed to bind
planning board memberships to-
gether in bond of progress and
, good will to the end that in many
cases boards constituted six and
eight years ago are serving still
with enthusiasm unbounded.
Unflinching determination to
succeed and favorable public
opinion spell victory for this en-
terprise Of coming as for any
other.
The basis of such victory lies
in the very beginnings: the high
school students must be impress
ed with the tremendous value of
their own work in preparing
check-ups of every building in
the city for reproduction in the
use map. which was described
in some detail in the second art
icle on coming published by The
Citizen last week. With care
lacking here, the program is
riddled at the start.
To comprehend at first one of
these use maps the average
citizen is likely to need a guide.
Such map is not like any 9TH
er. amy time, any place, any
where" It is covered with as
many cabalistic signs as an In
dian totem pole dots, circles,
squares, oblongs of red, blue.
black and green. All characters
sof a single sort mean the same
construction in bungalow, shop,
factory, garage
These the craftsman translates
one by one upon a common city
map. not as individual charac-
tiers, but in blocks or splotches
of arbitrary cross-hatchings, or
shadings, dead blacks, gloss
whites, or speckled areas. The
boundaries of these distinctive
areas have. by careful study and
the process of allowing for lini-
tation or expansion, been laid
off after long discussion by the
planning board
Simplifying the coming of city
into as few districts as possible,
the nominal number is six. The
accepted key markings for these
are as follows:
Single family residence dis
trict. plain white.
Two-family or general resi-
dence district, slanting paral-
lei lines.
Apartment house and hotel
district, vertical parallel
lines.
Business and store dis
trict. solid black.
Light industrial district,
cross Matching.
General industrial district.
massed small dots.
Therefore, a zoning map of a
city will instantly show by its
various bottlings just what may
be built in q given district; for
just what purposes the land may
be used. Latitude is broad Sim
gle and double houses, for ex-
ample, are permitted within
business and industrial districts.
under specified conditions.
Churches may 60 there if neces-
sary. Fire stations, churches,
hospitals. schools, riding acade-
mics under restricted health
conditions) are on the permissive
list in residential sections. As
Ia general rule telephone ex-
change constructor is allowable,
but il some commemorative the