ZONING NEEDED

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 101, 20 July 1927, Page 10

ZONING NEEDED

AREAS MUST BE PROTECTED RESIDENTIAL AREA SLUMPS .Proper attention to zoning in the layout of Auckland would have obviated any trouble about Hobson Bay and the necessity for deputations. This was the way Professor C. R. Knight im pressed on his audience at the Parnel .ibrary the necessity for proper attention to town planning Cities must be controlled to prevent residential areas being invaded by industries It was true that people did not wish to live too far from theii work, but sooner than live m a quartei which was being spoiled by the in trusion of factories many would remove to other districts and property values would slump. Professor Knight illustrated this point with the aid of a slide which showed a quarter of the city rather repellant to look at That part had been a residential district, but invaded r»v industries, had surely degenerated Facts like this had caused New York to adopt zoning and as a result owners being certain that they would be preserved from molestation, fine mansions were built quite close to the heart of the city. In New Zealand, on chtother hand, the owner of a section could erect on that property almost any building he pleased, without any regard to the nature of the neighbourhood. '■ Where factories should be restircted to in Auckland the speaker was nm prepared to say. They were necessary and would have to be placed some-

where, but the owners of land In residential localities were entitled to protection. There was plenty of criticism levelled against the Town Planning Act Amendment would come, but in the meantime it was a healthy sign that the future of cities would be safeguarded. Twelve hundred signatures have been secured to a petition urging Avondale’s inclusion in the Greater Auckland scheme. It will be presented at the meeting oi the Avondale Borough Council on Wednesday evening.