Planning Problems of Town, City, and Region: Papers and Discussions at the International City and Regional Planning Conference, Volume 17Conference, 1925 |
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Page 406 - However, no such regulation, restriction or boundary shall become effective until after a public hearing in relation thereto, at which parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard. At least fifteen days...
Page 389 - The publication must be made once a week for three successive weeks, in a newspaper published in the county in which the...
Page 246 - Private ownership of its very nature has profit for its goal, rather than the good of the community, and in consequence is not eager for the kind of expansion that may diminish the financial reward. In this connection it is well to consider the question of fares. To place the full burden of cost of rapid transit service on the passenger does not seem just, in view of the collateral advantages which flow to the neighboring property owners in the form of enhanced values, and to the business interests...
Page 406 - Before taking any action authorized in this section, the board of appeals or similar board shall give a hearing at which parties in interest and others shall have an opportunity to be heard. At least ten days...
Page 310 - Accepting, for the moment at least, the latter alternative we have a unit capable of handling 1. Planning, including zoning and the preservation of suitable forest and shore reservations. 2. Transportation, including street railways, buses and rapid transit lines. 3. Traffic, including highway construction and maintenance. 4. Water supply and electric energy. 5. Drainage. 6. Certain aspects of police, health and charity administration. Such a unit can be effectively governed by a council, say of...
Page 391 - ... plan already duly attested and filed, and for such damages as may be sustained by reason of the acts of the board of survey, its officers and agents under section seventy-nine. Any person injured in his property as aforesaid...
Page 405 - Such legislative body is authorized and empowered, whenever and as often as it may deem it for the public interest, to change or add to the official map or plan of the city so as to lay out new streets, highways or parks, or to widen or close existing streets, highways, or parks. At least ten days...
Page 405 - ... suspend action. Such additions and changes when adopted shall become a part of the official map of the municipality, and shall be deemed to be final and conclusive with respect to the location and width of the streets, highways, and parkways and the location and extent of parks and playgrounds shown thereon.
Page 405 - ... (d) For the purpose of preserving the integrity of such official map, no permit shall hereafter be issued for any building in the bed of any street, highway, or parkway, shown or laid out on such map except as provided in this section.
Page 311 - Prophets of the new and better day, they have "cast off their moorings from the habitable past" and set forth to chart the course of progress. The alluring idea of the regional plan is already accepted by the enlightened and imaginative. The time is coming, however, when you must take deliberate thought of regional government. For without regional government the fabric of your dreams will fray out to tattered fragments. Governing is a matter of infinitely more difficulty, not intellectually but humanly,...