Planning and National Recovery, Volume 17Conference, 1925 "Twenty years of city planning progress in the United States [by] John Nolen": 19th, p. 1-44. |
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Page 408 - 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 311 - The foundation of regional government is being laid, unwittingly almost, by the city planners. They are daily popularizing the idea of the region. 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...
Page 408 - 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 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 408 - ... in zoning regulations shall have power in a specific case by the vote of a majority of its members to grant a permit for a building in such street...
Page 412 - The comfort to be derived from shade trees has long been recognized. The early settlers of this country saved fine trees about their homes, on the village greens, along the country roads, and in the fields.
Page 408 - ... parties in interest and others shall have an opportunity to be heard. At least fifteen days' notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be published in an official publication of said municipality or in a newspaper of general circulation therein.
Page 426 - ... meaning, neither are they entirely indefinite, because the courts will look to previous court decisions to see how far considerations of general welfare have been held to be within the police power. Accordingly it can be seen that the police power is court-created, court-controlled and court-enlarged, but in its enlargement the courts somewhat follow public sentiment as it becomes more widespread and discriminating. They properly follow it rather conservatively. Some states follow more conservatively...
Page 302 - The objects of metropolitan organization are : first, to secure the execution of a uniform policy or plan with regard to that group of services properly supplied by local rather than by state or national enterprise and yet of interest to the whole metropolis; and second, to achieve an equitable adjustment of financial burdens between the various portions of the metropolitan community. A metropolis, however, is not an assemblage of individuals so much as a collection of communities in which individuals...