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Show Proper City Planning Recognized as Vital There might have been a time when lilies of this country had an excuse fur growing up in a sprawling, haphazard hap-hazard manner, with little or no regard re-gard to what the future needs of the communities might be. The situation is different today. The cities, a great majority of them at least, have been established. Their growth or lack of growth is largely a mutter of record. It Is possible to. gauge with some accuracy the nature and extent of future development. It is possible also to plan for that development. devel-opment. A recognition of this fact is perhaps the one big achievement ot American cities generally in the last decade or so. Planning and zoning have been adopted in hundreds of cities and have; made some progress in most of these. The condition is the subject of a report by a national advisory committee commit-tee on city planning and zoning that was tippointed by .Secretary Hoover of the Department of Commerce. The report, prepared by a group of widely known authorities, states that cities now have found that regulation of growth pays. It is coming to be accepted ac-cepted as a business proposition. The protection of home areas, the designation designa-tion of certain districts for industries, the opening or widening of streets in accordance with traffic needs, the establishing es-tablishing of parks and playgrounds within easy reach of ihe people and other similar planning all have become a serious concern to the alert and enterprising en-terprising city of today. |