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Show BELIEF IN ZONING GROWING Figures Show That Mora Than Fifteen Fif-teen Million Americans Now Live In Such Communities. More thnn 15,000,000 Americana live in zoned cities, towns and villages, according ac-cording to figures complied by the division di-vision of housing and building of the Department of Commerce. This li about 27 per cent of the urban popular tion of the nation, and indicates the growth of the movement for the "city beautiful" throughout the United Stntes. The department reports that on January 1, 1923, there were 109 zoned communities In the United States as compared with 55 on January Janu-ary 1, 1022. The largest zoned city in the country coun-try Is, of course, New York, while the smallest coned village has only 131 inhabitants. New York city has been zoned since 1910, and at present 81 -per cent of the population of New York stute lives In zoned communities. Second Sec-ond to New York comes the state of Oulifornla with 71 per cent Minnesota Is third with 58 per cent. New Jersey is fourth with 57 per cent, and Utah Is fifth with 55 per cent. In the number num-ber of communities zoned, New Jersey leads the country with 81; New York state Is second with 17, California Is third with 14, and Illinois la fourth with 10. Twenty-two of the fifty largest larg-est cities are now jsoned. As a rule, the zoning regulations provide that the city, town or village be divided Into districts and that certain cer-tain districts be set apart for residential residen-tial purposes and others for manufacturing. manufac-turing. The laws cover the height of the buildings and the percentage of the land they are to cover. This keeps the gnrage and the factory out of the residential districts, making for cleanliness clean-liness and more sanitary as well as more pleasant surroundings. |
