The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-23
|zONING CHANGE
 PETITION HEARD
Sentiments for, Against Proposal Voiced Before
 AIdermanic Committee 2

Sentiment for and against tl1e1 granting of zoning change petition involving property at Cooke and& Moran streets was expressed ct hearing before committee of tleA board of aldermen last night. TlieE committee will make a recommeIi. dation to the full board of aldermen.as which will then act on the petitionsa A petition in favor of the change, bearing signatures of 48 neighbors.E was presented to the committed Attorney Irving Pasternak, appear ing for the Moran family, which. submitted the application, pointed out that across the street from the, property are several stores and that change from residential to bus mess zone would be only fair.
 N. P. Swenson spoke in favor ofs the petition, delaring that the Morans should not be penalizeSi while other property owners enjoy@ advantages beause of building done before the Zoning ordinance vents l into effect. Also speaking for tlIesS application were Mrs. Joseph Root?f James Moran and William MoranslG
 A petition opposing the change with 50 signatures was offered by# ! Attorney Milton Meyers He alsoS presented letter from the Oversss look Cottage Park Club against granting the change. Aax
 Arguments in opposition were also. offered by Attorney Marcus Weis- man and Attorney Max Traurig.a Both represented groups of propertyre owners in the vicinity. ,s..sse
 Attorney Meyers, in opposing the petition, made the following state-A ment to the committee:
 When in September of 1928, the Board of Aldermen of the ss City of Waterbury passed and = = 1 adopted "The Building Zone Ordi- nance" which was subsequently s,. approved by The Mayor-Zoning was briefly defined as a plan sS whereby certain sections of the City were set apart and designat-s% ed for particular uses. That de-s9 | f1nition still stands. The true pur5 pose back of all zoning ordinancesey is to stabilize land values by pre-E| venting the haphazard mixing of
 retail business and industry ms districts which are stabilized as-w residence districts.
 Further. zONING is intended to. assure individuals that the values.ss of his property will be protected :, : by preventing his neighbor from using the adjacent land in a man- = ner which would be inconsistent :, with the use intended of section. ss generally.
 The legal right in support oi.,s ZON1NG emanatCS from tlse
 rights of abatements of nuisaces
 under which an individual had
 the right to recover damages for.
 injuries sustained or to effect ar abatement of the nuisance Any use which is objectionable from the viewpoint of public health, public safety, general welfare, de-ey preciation in value of adjacent, owners homes are certainly those ; uses which our ity government x has right to guard as against. | ZONING conSt. uteS the ideal method by which just the proper proportion of proL erty ill City,
 is allotted and restricted to each
 fthe various uses common to City Property.
 When the integrity of residence districts is assured property values are stabilized and development proceeds soundly. If such aSsur-
 ance is not present-if resident ial areas can at vii be molded ' \ so as to attract pool rooms. penny arcades, shooting galleries or GIN MILLS, or other enterprises which Y would be left where they are-5s ] than rather than stabilization-F's we shall have chaos-rather than y security to ourselves we shall ofba fer immunity to destroyers of our rights, to enjoy peace and quiet 's anio. ,d-.95 .. ed -apa