Antedating of "Zoning"

[Shapiro, Fred]

zoning (OED, 2., 1912)

1911 _Town Planning Review_ Oct. 214 (JSTOR)  The seventh session was on "Legal and Administrative Methods," conducted by A. W. Crawford, Assistant City Solicitor of Philadelphia.  He pleaded the desirability of a Uniform City Planning Code; in particular calling for excess condemnation, the assessing of benefits on abutters, zoning, lex adickes, and the granting of much more power to the Board of Surveyors.


Fred Shapiro

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