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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 166, 9 April 1921, Page 7

The question of a development plan for the city was discussed at the meeting of the executive of the Town Planning Association on Thursday night, and the following resolution was passed: "That the City Council be urged to set up a commission, including representatives of the Town Planning Association, for the purpose of studying the future development of the city and its reserves, particularly the lay out of the Town Belt, and to prepare a development plan tor fnure guidance.” Such a, plan, it was urged, would direct the future growth of "the' city in an- orderly, systematic way. It would help materially to solve M ellington’s problems of transportation, street congestion, recreation, and public health. The ideal of a city must rise above mere commercial and industrial supremacy, taking the higher ground of becoming an attractive, larger home for its residents of all classes, as well as for the stranger. A development plan will tend to make Wellington tho finest and most attractive city in the Dominion. City planningis a science that is as old ns the building of cities. A plan for a citv is quite as simple as a plan tor a residence- The latter has merely to do with our individual home—the former with our larger home, our city. lhe commission suggested by the Town Planning Association would consist ot men of vision-practical men, of couree-for a plan is above all else on eminently practical proposition.