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Show CITY PLANNING BY LEON FREHNER The Centennial Beautification Division has as part of its program conducted a statewide movement in community planning plan-ning under the direction of the Planning and Zoning committee. At a statewide convention held here in Salt Lake last November, Novem-ber, Planning was explained and encouraged by two leading planning figures in America. The people of our communities were given a brief insite into planning what it is, and what it can mean to communities who undertake the job of planning as is permitted under the state enabling act and according to modern mod-ern planning techniques i Planning is no new thjing in Utah. The pioneers were planners plan-ners of the first order, for they not only planned cities and communities com-munities but they took an active part in their development. Brigham Young encouraged industry and thrift based on an agricultural economy. He knew I that if an empire were to be -r-built it must be founded in the soil of the country and that a good community life was indes-pensable, indes-pensable, if these things came into being. He knew more than we seem to today, that a good home life would make for good communities and good people and thus he proceeded to build an empire. As it was then, it should always be: the art of city creating the kind of environ-building environ-building should be the art of ment needed to produce and maintain human values. Courage, Intelligence And Support Xecded To plan requires courage, but more it requires the best intelligence the community can muster, coupled with an active (Continued On Page 5) FREIIMER . . . Continued from Page 1 support from development. For many years wo have neglected to give our communities the attention needed to keep them beautiful and more progressive. Somewhere along the line we failed to realize that community planning is a continuous process pro-cess that cannot be shelved for even a year if we would not reap some thorns. It is quite evident that people in Utah had come to believe" that the cities had been planned and so that was that, and that has been the reason for much of our present day headaches. Today, because of necessity we are rising up to rehabilitate the - communities we neglected, the communities that are at the cross roads in a change over from agriculture to commercial and industrial centers. Planning was much simpler when the state lived on an agricultural pattern. Today it is a complex process. It is a scientific pro- ' regard for all of man's activities activi-ties and peculiarities. In ordei to plan in this manner it is an absolute must that a planning organization be etab 1 i s h e d through which can come a coordination, co-ordination, a pulling together ot all people interested in the various var-ious phases of human welfare the sociologist, the health department, de-partment, the engineer, the lawyer, businessman, the farmer, far-mer, the home . owner, the artist ar-tist and the man in the street. ' Planning is not only a profession pro-fession in this country, but it is an important function of progressive pro-gressive government. It serves the same relationship to a city that a research lab does to industry. in-dustry. Planning Needed Now Most cities that have., given planning a trial would not abandon it for any price, while cities who delay starting of a wait too long the starting of a planning program find themselves them-selves in so sick and run down a condition at the heels, that it cess. For intelligent planning is based on facts and facts are determined de-termined through study and research. re-search. Plans are based on the accumulated knowledge of the community its past, its present, pre-sent, and as far as possible, the foreseeable future. If cities are to serve man and benefit him, they should be planned with a would oe more protitaDie to raze the town to the ground and start anew. Can we keep our community from sinking? We are certainly going down inch by inch at the present time. In ensuing articles I will explain how we, as citizens, can best act to make our community one of which we may all be proud. |