With the flooding in Spain following flooding in Asheville and Tampa Bay and other nearby places from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, extreme weather has been in the news of late. The Climate Action Plan Committee meets tomorrow on Monday the 4th, and they continue to think too small.
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| Emissions-intensified congestion (NY Times) |
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| Hurricane costs (Sunday) |
On the agenda are updates on the "idle reduction campaign" and the "Get There Challenge."
In the fall of 1924 the morning paper serialized excerpts and adaptations from a Department of Commerce pamphlet on zoning.
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| A Zoning Primer |
Back in 1922 a committee appointed by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover published "A Zoning Primer."
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| October 3rd, 1924 |
After a couple of years it and its issues registered strongly enough for the morning paper to serialize it in the "Better Homes" Sunday section. You may recall that the Realtors had started discussing and advocating for zoning in the early fall of 1924.
The Commerce Department committee did not hit the theme of "undesirable citizens," as the Realtors felt free to do, and instead focused on equality, "applicable to all." The leading theme was stabilization of property value, which even if you didn't own property still applied, at least theoretically.
The Policy Committee for our Metropolitan Planning Commission meets on Tuesday the 24th to adopt the new Metropolitan Transportation Safety ...
