Town Planning
Sir, —When town-planning officers are able to plan changes in zoning as frequently as five-yearly, and even between five-yearly re.views, it would seem that it is the City Council’s by-laws that are the more urgently in need of reviewing. It is quite astonishing to read that the people most concerned with rezoning, home owners who usually plan for a life-time when buying, are deliberately! kept in the dark until district schemes and reviews are publicly notified. These people, surely, are entitled to more than “to seek and obtain information about zoning from the town-planning officers.” Some security, in the form of stabilised zoning for a period of at least 50 years, does not seem unreasonable when a life-time’s care and work have been put into establishing a home. Otherwise homeplanning in this city is just a gamble.—Yours, etc., N. MEAGER. May 10, 1969.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31986, 13 May 1969, Page 16
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