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Page 165 - It shall be the function and duty of the commission to make and adopt a master plan for the physical development of the municipality...
Page 166 - The plan and map shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and 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...
Page 257 - LOUDON'S ENCYCLOPEDIA of AGRICULTURE: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo. 21s. London's Encyclopaedia of Gardening: comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening.
Page 165 - All members of the commission shall serve as such without compensation, and the appointed members shall hold no other municipal office, except that one of such appointed members may be a member of the zoning board of adjustment or appeals. The terms of...
Page 165 - ... aviation fields, and other public ways, grounds, and open spaces; the general location of public buildings and other public property...
Page 166 - The resolution shall refer expressly to the maps and descriptive and other matter intended by the commission to form the whole or part of the plan...
Page 8 - The principal value of a private garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessor vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues, — hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation. The garden thus becomes a moral agent, a test of character, as it was in the beginning.
Page 167 - ... then the submission to the planning commission shall be by the board, commission, or body having such jurisdiction, and the planning commission's disapproval may be overruled by said board, commission, or body by a vote of not less than two-thirds of its membership.
Page 166 - In the preparation of such plan the commission shall make careful and comprehensive surveys and studies of present conditions and future growth of the municipality and with due regard to its relation to neighboring territory. The plan shall be made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the municipality...
Page 167 - All public officials shall, upon request, furnish to the commission, within a reasonable time, such available information as it may require for its work.