TOWN-PLANNING
NEW BUILDING ALIGNMENT Building alignments on new streets less than 66ft. wide have to be defined and approved by the City Council in the form of specific resolutions. The usual formula is to authorise a street not less than 40ft in width, and to stipulate that no building or part of a building shall at any time be erected within a distance of 33ft from the centre of the road. In the case of one such resolution applying to a new street being made through the Rawson estate at Seatoun, the stipulation read 35ft instead of the usual 33ft. When asked yesterday if the figure were correct, the Mayor said that 35ft. was in accordance with the new town-planning practice. If this is going to be the case with all new streets the provision makes for a 70ft. opening between building lines. Strictly interpreted, it will mean that if the street is 40ft. wide (the provided minimum), any person building on that street will have to build back 15ft—even if it be only a motor garage.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 169, 12 April 1930, Page 10
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177TOWN-PLANNING Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 169, 12 April 1930, Page 10
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