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Show BELIEF IN ZONING GROWING Flguret Show That More Than Kit. teen Million Americans Now Llvs In Such Communitiea. Moro than l.VKKVKX) Americans live in zoned cities, towns and villages, according ac-cording to figures compiled by the division di-vision of housing and building of the Iieparlnient of Commerce. This is about "7 per cent of the urban population popula-tion of the nation, and Indicates the growth of the movement for the "city beautiful" throughout the United States. The department reports that on January J, HI"..'), there were KXI zoned communltlw) In the United KtnteM as compared with fjj on January Janu-ary 1, V.Yl'i. The largest zoned city In the country coun-try Is. of course, New York, while the Muullest zoned village has only 131 Inhabitants. New York city has been zoned since 3111 0. and nt present fil per cent of the population of New York Ktate lives In zoned communities. Second Sec-ond to New York comes the state of California with 71 percent Minnesota Is third with f,S per cent. New Jersey Is fourth with 57 per cent, and Utah Is fifth with fjfi per cent. In the number num-ber of communities zoned. New Jersey leads the country with 31; New Y'ork stale Is second with 17, California Is third with 14. and Illinois is fourth with 10. Twenty-two of the fifty largest larg-est cities nre bow zoned. As a rule, the zoning regulations provide thnt the city, town or village be divided Into districts and that certain cer-tain districts be set apart for residential residen-tial purposes nnd others for manufacturing. manufac-turing. The laws cover the height of the buildings nnd the percentage of the Innd they are to cover. This keeps the garage and the factory out of the residential districts, making for cleanliness clean-liness and more sanitary as well as more pleasant surroundings. |