Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-20 | Page 42 | Kessler Reviews Improvements Plan

KESSLER REVIEWS 1P1HEIT PLAN City Expert Tells Real Estate Es-tate Board Report Is Due Soon. I As a guest of the Salt Lake real estate es-tate board at its regular semimonthly meeting and luncheon at the Commercial club Friday, George E. Kessler, city planning expert of St. Louis, reviewed the plans under way ; for the improvement improve-ment of the physical condition of Salt Lake. He said good progress was heing made so that a definite report could be given shortly as to what would be feasible feas-ible and to the best interests of the city at large in the way of correcting evils In city building which had not bfeen anticipated an-ticipated by the pioneers of Salt Lake. Mr. Kessler placed great stress on the benefits to be derived from segregating the large city blocks, particularly in the business section of the city, 'declaring that the result In additional frontage would more than offset the cost of acquiring ac-quiring the property necessary for street construction through the blocks. He suggested sug-gested also that instead of permitting the city to spread, either for mercantile or residential reasons, the real estate men should urge the use of property which is now vacant, both in the business and residential sections. Salt Lake is fortunate, said Mr. Kessler. Kess-ler. In not having ar contracts to the extent that its population of the laboring class would hav been increased to a point where the housing problems would have been taken up by the government. Wrdle real estate values would not suffer suf-fer after the war, even if thousands of houses had been built in Salt Lake by the government to accommodate workers In munitions plants and other necessary Industrial In-dustrial establishments-, Mr. Kessler said that Salt Lake had not sufferer! a disarrangement dis-arrangement of Us social conditions, such as had occurred to many cities in the east, where hlsher wages than ever before are being paid, and the servant problem has become impossible of solution. Mr. Kessler declared that more attention atten-tion should be paid to tourist travel, and that boulevards and drives, to include both sides of the Jordan river, should be proviced. He said, also, that one of the pressing needs of Sa! I Lake is parks and breathing .spots for the rapidly increasing population.