Urban Land Use, Sioux City, Iowa: A Report by the Urban Planning Division of the Iowa State Planning Board in cooperation with the Works Progress Administration for the Sioux City Zoning & Planning Commission, 1936

Urban Land Use, Sioux City, Iowa: A Report by the Urban Planning Division of the Iowa State Planning Board in cooperation with the Works Progress Administration for the Sioux City Zoning & Planning Commission, 1936. Transportation, Department of

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Abstract

City Planning Commissions have been formed with the purpose of guiding und accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the municipality and its environs which will, in accordance with present and future needs, best promote health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity and general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development." The foundation of every comprehensive city planning program is the master plan with its maps und notes. A part of the plan has been the designation and restriction of the uses of the land. This power of the municipality - zoning - is necessary in making the plan effective. Too frequently planning and zoning have not been considered in their proper relationship. With streets and service facilities already existing it is possible to zone: to prevent further over-burdening. In new subdivisions the extension of streets and utilities may parallel the uses for which each section is zoned.