Speech Draft by Judge Harry S. Truman, A Regional Plan for Kansas City
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OCR Page 1 of 7A Regional Pran for Kansas City.
All great cities must plan for future ex-
pansion and growth or cease to be great cities.
a plan for
A regional plan is the proper and scientific
use of land for the accommodation of large pop-
loking an area of several political devisions.
ulations
It means transportation systems:-
plenty of them, in the right places, air, water,
rail, highways. It means zoning of land for fac-
tories, wholesale and retail business centers,
hotels, apartments, residences, recreation places,
parks, sanitation and whatever else is necessary
to make right living conditions co-inside with
proper conditions for making a living.
Large centers of population have discovered
that due to auto and air transportation, peb-
ple are more widely scatered than in times past.
Points from ten to thirty miles fromthe center
of a city are now as near in time as points two
to six miles away were in the days of slow mov-
ing vehicles. Cities have found that ideal fac-
tory sites have been made into poor residence
sections and that good business sections have
been ruined by lack of proper transportation
facilities.