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by Charles Judd Farley For some reason that I haven’t as yet figured out, the Moderator placed me on the Committee to report on zoning. What I knew about zoning was very little, and I suspect that many of my fellow townspeople are in the same boat. I’m learning, however, and it has occurred to me that you may be interested in what I am finding out. The first questions that come up are: Why do we need to zone? Why aren’t things good enough as they are? Aren’t we giving up our rights as free citizens? and of course we want to know the answers. I began to hunt up the answers to these questions by calling on the State Planning Board which happens to be about two blocks away from where I work. The people there really know what it is all about and are only too glad to be of help. Zoning is needed for quite a number of reasons: to protect the health of a community, by pre venting the development of slum areas, by excluding noxious types of business —such as industries producing injurious fumes, etc.; to promote safety by lessening fire and traffic hazards; to prevent areas growing up where conditions of morality might be unsatisfac tory and to maintain and improve property values and encourage the most appropriate use of land. Things may be good enough as they are and if that is true, zoning will keep them so. A nice neigh borhood, properly zoned to prevent
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Acton Beacon
Acton, Massachusetts, US
Tue, Jul 31, 1945
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