The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-02-22
Highlanders Plan
To Project Their
Land by Zoning

resolution OI Ito =:
penton county in general ana IN
tha Kennewick Highlands In par
. ., II would be well to con-
s;Jar Joining and its benefits to
s areas. Zoning is not. as some
Lai;nve a conglomeration of re-
..rict;ons designed to hamper the
srae use of property. If it, were it
would be of no value and should
not be given place among the
,,oaf,I laws of the community.
Ewing in its simplest and best
fo,m is a set of rules illustrated
hv maps. adopted by a community
~ direct and preserve its develop
ment in pattern most suited 10
the needs and wishes OF that
community. Instead of being full
of restrictions, a coming ordinance
~ resolution is a set of protective
rules that are no more restrictive
=. GA Nampering than the commune
- 1hesires or requires for its
wprosperity, comfort and happiness.
Naturally, some types of COM
n,,n;ties or different sections of
one community will require diff
farent treatment. Areas that are
devoted primarily to farming and
agriculture will require regula-
s tions that encourage and protect
agricultural uses, while other
areas that are primarily residen-
tial in composition and where
home-sites are relatively small in
area will require still other
regulations. The fact that people
are crowded together in smaller
areas presents an entirely differ
ent problem than where there is
plenty of open space and homes
are widely separated.
Most cities protect their inhabit-
ants from the most Objectionable
uses of property through zoning
ordinances or nuisance regula-
lions. As a result many nuisance
types of business or industry wish
ing to take advantage of the COM
mercial opportunities available in
the city, locate themselves in rural
areas near to but outside the
limits of the city, thus avoiding
regulatory ordinances and d also
benefiting by over taxes. If the
rural areas surrounding the city
are not zoned, they soon fall heir
to all the outcasts. from the city
and do not have the benefit of
regulatory ordinances usually in
effect in cities. Some Of the most
common intrusions into the rural
areas include: auto Wrecking
J yards, rubbish dumps, road houses,
= Aahter houses, promiscuous
..--..rSiSvay signs, many of the Odor-
producing industries and other
less desirable neighbors.
The Zoning Resolution as pre-
pared does not prohibit even the
most obnoxious of manufacturing
or industrial uses. There is place
provided even for them and they
are given the protection of being
located according to law and thus
are not under the threat of pos
sible suits and injunctions at some
later date because Of their be-
coming nuisance to health and
comfort of the community. Al
though there are districts where
these industrial uses are permit
ted, they are not allowed to scatter
promiscuously through the resi-
Dental districts.
The proposed Benton County
'Zoning Resolution provides fol
seven kinds of districts with an
eighth for aeroplane landing
fields. This last. Landing Field
District, may be made supplement
tary to any one of the other dis
trlcts. These eight kinds of dis
tricts are: ... ,
!. Residential District, r..
2. Suburban District, S.
3. Agricultural District, A. :
a. Commercial District, c.
>. Manufacturing District, MI.
s. Manufacturing District, M-2.
2. Unclassified District, u.
9. Landing Field District, L. F.
In this article it is not possible
to recite all of the provisions of
the resolution in detail, but the
tirsts1Tee classifications proposed
II Kennewick Highlands may
PEI explained briefly as follows:
l. Residential District p.