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Excerpt from A City Plan for Saint Louis: Reports of the Several Committees Appointed by the Executive Board of the Civic League to Draft a City Plan
Herewith we present for your consideration and approval a plan for the improvement of St. Louis, which has been drafted with great care by the several committees composed of forty two citizens representing almost. Every profession and interest in the. City In November, 1905, the Executive Board appointed a committee of five to consider the feasibility and scope of a comprehensive city plan. This committee consisted of 'm. Trelease, Director Scope of a City of the Missouri Botanical Gardens; John D. Davis. Plan. Vice-president of the Mississippi Valley Trust Com pany; J. Lawrence Mauran, Architect and Chairman of the Public Buildings (onnnissiom John F. Lee, President of the St. Louis Bar Association, and Dwight, F. Davis, member of the Public Library Board and Free Baths Commission. After considerable investigation into the conditions in St. Louis, and a careful survey of the widespread movement for civic improvements, the committee reported that a city plan for St. Louis was not only feasible. But most essential and desirable. It outlined in a gene 'al way the main features of such a plan, and recommended the appointment of five committees to prepare tentative reports covering the various parts of the plan, and a general committee to co-ordinate the recommendations of the several committees and incorporate them into the final comprehensive report.
The problems suggested for consideration by the. Several committees were: 1' a) A group plan for municipal buildings. (1 b) An inner and outer park system. It) (ivic centers - the grouping of small parks and play grounds, public baths, branch libraries, schools, model tenements, police stations, fire engine houses, and other public and quasi-public institutions.
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