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holdings, confining different uses to their appropriate places, and, as 

 the city wields a permanent authority, it may at any time modify the 

 details of its regulations, bearing still in mind their main purpose and 

 their part in the general scheme. 



The control by the municipality of land subdivision and building 

 development is becoming widely recognized as an essential of sound 

 community growth, recognized not only by city planners but by 

 realtors and subdividers who have seen the economic and social benefits 

 already accruing in planned communities. The subdivision or platting 

 regulations now in force require submission of development plans to a 

 municipal authority, usually the plan commission ; these regulations 

 include certain appropriate standards as to lot sizes and certain require- 

 ments as to construction of roads and installation of utilities ; and 

 most important from the community point of view provision is 

 made for compelling conformity with the master plan of city or region, 

 where this exists. 



In these platting and zoning regulations, in the greater limitation 

 by community authority of individual activity which is not for the 

 community good, we have the hopeful beginning of a sane and organized 

 relation between land development and city planning, which will 

 stabilize and simplify the work of real estate development and do away 

 with a vast amount of wasted because unrelated private effort. 



