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Show Start Community Planning Now, Speaker Warns It is time for Sugar House and the southeast area to start some real community planning. This was the message which Leon Frehner, landscape architect archi-tect and city planner, brought to the Sugar House Chamber of Commerce members at their monthly meeting Tuesday noon. "Planning should have started 40 years ago when Sugar House was just beginning to develop," Mr. Frehner said; "but it's not too late to plan and work for a better community if we start now." A capacity crowd of members were present at the luncheon meeting. An innovation was started at the meeting when Ray D. Free, chamber president, presi-dent, called on one man at each table to introduce other members mem-bers and guests at the same table. Preceding Mr. Frehner's remarks, a report on the polio drive was made by AI Larsen. John C. Barnes reported on the installation of an attractive stone bench on the Plaza by the Salt Lake City Lines. The progress prog-ress of the Pioneer Memorial State Park plans were briefly outlined by Horace A. Sorensen. Phenomenal Growth Phenomenal growth of the southeast' section makes community com-munity planning all the more pressing, Mr. Frehner pointed out. New residential areas are developing without any provision provis-ion for space for schools, playgrounds play-grounds or adequate shopping centers. Business building are being built without direction or reason Mr. Frehner said. A resident of 2129 20th East, Mr. Frehner said that his own neighborhood provided strong proof of lack of planning. There are no park, school areas which have been designated on the south side of 21st South. "If our children attend the school which is to be constructed north of 21st South, it will mean that they will have to cross several times a day a major intersection intersec-tion bearing a heavy load of traffic. Cooperate With Others Sugar House should not only plan for its own area, but also cooperate with others interested in a master plan for the Salt Lake Valley, Mr. Frehner added. Such improvement projects are outlined for the beaches of Great Salt Lake and Antelope Island, the This Is the Place Monument and Fort Douglas, and the state park at the prison site should all be coordinated with others to insure the most beautiful valley in the world, he said. In calling for the various civic civ-ic groups in the southeast area to get together and do some planning. Mr. Frehner pointed out a condition which is already very serious as new business firms come in. Two streets, 11th East and 21st South, have block upon block of business building, while the side streets near the center of the main business district dis-trict have none. |