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Show 1 Cities TItree Great Needs Hero is the last word in city-planning as formulated by the 'National Conference on City Planning. To make your city conform to the modern standards of municipal efficiency, official of-ficial policy muBt recognize, according accord-ing to civic exports, who have Just met here In convention, tho following necessities: Tho zone-system. . Rail and water lorminal facilities. Strcot jLraftic control. Zoning, was explained as the dividing of a community into residential, business busi-ness and manufacturing districts. Even Ihe size of dwellings and apartment apart-ment houses are restricted for tho good of the entire community. "Zoning of cities will have groat influence in-fluence in the life of cities," says Fla-vel Fla-vel Shurtleff of Boston, secretary of the conference. "6nMjie Pacific Coast, I understand industrlosao avoiding those cities which have noonlng ordinance." Thus far New York City, St. Louis, Tortland. Ore,, and Los Angeles, have zoning laws. For solution of tho terminal problem, prob-lem, the following recomniendtions are made: Unifiedcontrol and operation within 4 .city limits. Municipal control of In-tra-clty lines not necessary If such un- 1 ificd control can bo obtained. I Present wasteful duplication of tor1 mlnals cannot be permitted to continue. con-tinue. Shippers should be free from dependence de-pendence on ono road for cars. , All spurs should be common users. Tracks should be served by belt lines. Thero must be adequate freight yards. Railroad lines may be diverted around the city limits so that through trains will not have to enter heat of city. I Rail and water terminals should bo treated tis a single problem. Elimination of grade crossings. E. P. Goodrich, engineer of New York, urges segregation of traffic, that lb, street cars overhead or in subways ! with street IovcIb left for motor and other vehicular travel. He suggested establishment of pri-i pri-i vato rights of way by trucking inter eats, whero froight is handled by trucks; cutting off building corner and setting in of curbs; enlargements of jcurb radius at corners; use of pairs of one way streets; designation of streets i to handle certain types of traffic, and j elimination of parking on crowded streets. |