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Show Secretary Hoover Names Committee to Study National Problem Widespread Interest In the qui tloo H rjf city zoninc: caused Herbert Ho.i-ver. Ho.i-ver. secretary of commerce, to ap-H ap-H point a national commit''-, of PX-H PX-H ports to study the question. This l -ommittee sine spring has Hied re-j re-j ports from a study of toning in "Which such r . 1 1 n r i i ere str . Jodorsed for ivory growing cltl b conclusion t it5" work the commit-has commit-has now written it K lng law which one wiehin? to stud SAFEGUARD PKOPHRTY. H Zoning is tho n u ;-i.:n to I frt of the city planning Which at-H at-H timpt.s to set aside certain sections bj a city for speclfii H Jaw a section of the city U deefgnat- oa as a borne jscctlon, another as ft railroad ami U' i-. lii-iuni c, other for factories etc. Zoning saf- V jruarrl-- Jtfoshes tot a ' I ieitto X 1 Also ,' tale business i J M H taire w.-.iu-s' u f m eection win net be , , ,J porUtion. A hui I tran"-f tran"-f Jems aro j in J ' ' 1 1 a renins ' Blnl InMb, n - J i '' ' have; tSM-gpi r rotection of lr ' BBrthat have owned und H it, wlion mdc a law as late as was ,nln ' " "f New rrk 1 00 absolutely ncci Lh e T prote ft 'hopplns and banl.'r, LbY the encroachments oi warehouses, r.n 1 be put Into effort only with gr-it hardship to Bany It also Is bound to cause hundreds of lawsuits when ' put off until a Ity has grown in a 'haphazard way to the slc of some i astern cities. UT JiTANDS TLST. Tlio standard ait ay prepared by the department has the weight of great authority and contains provi-1 provi-1 slons that hatfe stood the test of hundreds of lawsuits. Edward M. Passett, counsel for the zoning com-i com-i mlttee of N'cW York, who has d. I fended the Xew York law, in hundreds hun-dreds of cases is the legal member of Mr. Hoover's board Other members mem-bers are: flftng B. Hiett. former president of the National Association of Heal Estate P.oards; John Ihlder. housing consulant and manager of .he civic development department of the I Chamber of Commerce of the United States: Morris Knowles. consulting ! engineer, and alst from the Chamber of Commerce of the t-nit d States; I Nelson P. Lewis, municipal engin-er I for the National C nferenee of City PI nning and rious other organl-zttJons; organl-zttJons; J. Horsc Mc'rl.md. president presi-dent of the American Civic organization. organiza-tion. Frederick Lt.w Olmsted, presl-dent presl-dent of the American Society cf Landscape Architects: Lawrence Yell-i ler, eerret.niT and iroctor of tho National Na-tional Housing aMcictlon. nnd John ff and ' hour.in. division M the U. S. d part-it - -i ACT '-ipf FREE. The ."uggel is too lonfr to tment r( c' rce. Ti.e committee states that zoning Is I under the police power of the state! and Is well within tho powers granted 1 by the ordinary stat" constitution to j legislatures of stales. If drawn ac-1 cording to the national committee's: plan, no amendment to the stale con-! Stltutlon Is necessary. Together with ' the pttipost l is ware numerous notes, on legal questions so the ordinance! c.".n be fiamed wlthr.ut encountering obrtacles In courts that have proven ' the undoing of similar laws In 'other J states. A state enabling act Is neces- i sary becauae cities hrve not been printed specific authority to do many things tha.t zoning Implies, the roport ; I says. Cities that dc3!;-e to adopt zoning, zon-ing, as hundreds have, are cautioned ' 'against adding to the law now words' or phrases and also against depirt- i Ing from the standard form except In l iai s where local conditions abso-lutel abso-lutel demand IL There is no city where a zoning ordinance has been passed that has not been compelled to overcome opposition op-position of some individuals. To district dis-trict a city and set its lines of futuro growth sooner or later becomes necessary, neces-sary, according to a report made to j the National Beal Entatn board, but it can never be done without Interfer-' Interfer-' Ing with the plans or supposed prop-1 prop-1 crty rights of some individuals. |