This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...which should have side parking--and in Colorado Springs they will be much the more numerous--those in the paving district have been already planned, and my report of 1905 laid down some general principles for guidance where this kind of development is contemplated. However, I will here again select a concrete case to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...which should have side parking--and in Colorado Springs they will be much the more numerous--those in the paving district have been already planned, and my report of 1905 laid down some general principles for guidance where this kind of development is contemplated. However, I will here again select a concrete case to illustrate a point. At the time of my visit a few months ago, an ordinance was under consideration for the improvement of Boulder Street. The plan contemplated, called for a curb thirty feet from the property line on each side of the street from Cascade Avenue to Institute Street--this giving a twenty-two-foot side parking and a forty-foot central roadway. From Institute Street to Main Street, it was proposed to narrow the side parkings by ten feet, so as to give a sixty-foot roadway, there being a car line on that part of the street. With a very mistaken idea of self-interest, as it must seem to all students of city planning, some of the property owners were asking for a sixty-foot roadway the whole distance. This case well illustrates the value to an urban community of having a permanent cityplanning board, to whom such questions can be referred for arbitration and decision on impersonal lines and with the broad outlook of the city. It is asking much of an individual official to demand that he shall stand out--even when he knows he is right--against the insistence of property owners as to the development of their own street. One aggressive citizen, without experience in such subjects and with a blind, unreasoned notion, may lead a multitude, who will repent after the work has been done. I do not know anything about the opposition on Boulder Street to the proposed forty-foot roadway, but I use the instance to point a moral. Forty feet is certa...
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