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Show Planning Commission Explains Zone Recommendations Within The City The zoning ordinance is part of the program being developed in Cedar City for making a more orderly and economical community. commu-nity. Whenever there is a request for a change In zoning, all citizens citi-zens should be interested to discover dis-cover whether the proposal would be beneficial or detrimental detrimen-tal to the people of the city. Unless the public becomes familiar fa-miliar with present zoning regu-lations regu-lations and insists that changes be made only when they will not be harmful, to the general public welfare, individuals who want special privileges will work for the breakdown of the zoning plan. The location and amount of area to be zoned for business is one of the major problems of good zoning. No matter how land is zoned for business, some owner In a residential district Is constantly asking that his prop-erty prop-erty be zoned commercial, In the hope of a higher sale price. Studies of hundreds of cities In the United States reveal that only a limited amount of land-about land-about 50 feet of frontage for each 100 persons, or between O.y.r and 3.0r; of the total area of the city can be used for business. bus-iness. When very much larger amounts than this are zoned for business, part of the land will remain vacant, or will be built to houses (which is undesirable In the business section). Scat-: tered businesses located along the highway, likewise are hazards haz-ards to traffic and make the costs of public services very much higher. The amount of land actually used for business In Cedar City at this time is not known since the land use map has not recently re-cently been brought up-to-date. The amount of land zoned for business at the present time, is approximately 135 acres, or 5r; I of the entire city. This gives about 33,400 feet of business frontage along the streets, or enough to serve a population of 66,800 persons. Cedar City's present pres-ent population is 6,172. In addition to its commercial zones, Cedar City has 600 acres zoned for industry, or approximately approxi-mately 22' of the citv, with about 6,000 feet of this "frontage being on North Main street, and therefore usable for business development. de-velopment. This main street frontage would be sufficient for another 12.000 people. At the present time, petitions are before the city council to zone approximately -JOO0 feet of Highway 91 extending to the the south city limits into commercial. com-mercial. The east side of the street has recently been slbdl-vided slbdl-vided for homes. Any opposition to additional commercial zoning is branded an attempt to prevent the growth of the city. Actually, the building build-ing of commercial structures in groups, designed with off-street parking, loading and unloading areas, and proper utilities, brings a much more healthy and permanent growth than can be achieved by long ribbon strings on the main streets. Efforts should be made to bring together the owners of vacant properties In the present business zones to encourage the use of such land for new businesses. bus-inesses. At least 50rr of all land now in the business zones is either ei-ther usd for houses or Is vacant. The planning commission has recommended against additional business zoning until more land for business ! actually needed. Citizens of the community are j requested to study the present zoning ordinance and make suggestions sug-gestions as to its protection and change where needed. Cedar City Planning Commission |