TOWN-PLANNING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16239, 24 November 1914, Page 3

TOWN-PLANNING.

WHAT DUNEDEN SHOULD DO. Mr E. Ansconibe recently read a paper at a meeting of the Expansion League in which he suggested the setting up of a commission to go into the question of town planning for Dunedin, and l as the result of which the league resolved to approach the City Couriil. The main clauses of the report road:—

At present we are permitting this city to grow_ in an orderless and formless manner, while it only requires sufficient community patriotism to substitute order for disorder, and reason, common sense, and action for negligence and indifference. I think_ the league should move at onoe in uiis direction, and would suggest that the Mayor be interviewed and the suggestion made that the City Council of Dunedin be requested to authorise the appointment of a commission, composed of members of that body and citizens, whose duty it shall be to take up this question, to the end that the whole city may be fully informed: as to what is contemplated in the plan for the future, so that an official plan of Dunedin may be produced that will have the endorcement and support of the whole community. The duties of the commission would bo to inquiro into existing conditions relative to traffic, streets, transportation, and freight facilities, tramway lines, parks, playgrounds, public and private works, housing plans, plans of contemplated city buildings, and other kindred matters; also as to the direction and character of the city's probable future development and growth, both as to territory, population, and industrially, and to prepare and recommend a city plan or plans covering the above subjects in preparation for the future of the city, to the end that its development, and both its public and private works, may be laid out and executed with intelligent foresight and consistency and to the bpst advantage of its present and future inhabitants.