Practical Methods of Re-Zoning Urban Areas

The purpose of this paper is to show why re-zoning is a present-day necessity, and to indicate some practical methods of re-zoning urban areas. The first part of the paper is devoted to an ex planation of zoning experience in Chicago, Ill. The Illinois State law permitting zoning is outlined , together with the 1923 Chicago zoning ordinance and subsequent amendments in methods and policies, and then a comparison is drawn between land uses as they existed in 1923, the land-use allocations made in the 1923 zoning ordinance, and the land uses as they existed in 1936. The writer believes that this factual demonstration of conditions in Chic ago , which are shown to be similar to conditions in other American cities, proves the need for re-zoning.