History of Milwaukee, city and county . siness requirements. From the stand-point of public health, congestion and fire dangers, the height limitations setby European cities would be preferable by far. But in the opinion of lead-ing architects and others who testified before the New York Heights of Build-ings Commission, a skyscraper is not a source of great profit at best. Thesearchitects also testified that a ten or twelve-story building has reached thelogical limit because the cost per cubic foot increases arithmetically with theincrease of stories beyond such heights. A limitation of 125 f
History of Milwaukee, city and county . siness requirements. From the stand-point of public health, congestion and fire dangers, the height limitations setby European cities would be preferable by far. But in the opinion of lead-ing architects and others who testified before the New York Heights of Build-ings Commission, a skyscraper is not a source of great profit at best. Thesearchitects also testified that a ten or twelve-story building has reached thelogical limit because the cost per cubic foot increases arithmetically with theincrease of stories beyond such heights. A limitation of 125 feet is therefore not a hardship on property own-ers, and though a concession as above stated, it will tend to keep in handthe dangers incident to groups of skyscrapers. For such reasons Boston seta limit of 125 feet in 1911, Washington a limit of 110 feet, and New York alimit of 125 feet for Fifth Avenue. A similar limit for Milwaukee seems tobe well within reason. The letter of E. H. Bodden, Milwaukees tax commissioner, referred to in. DR. E. B. WDLCOTT MONUMENT, LAKE PARK PROSPECTIVE MILWAUKEE—CITY PLANNING AND ZONING 527 a previous paragraph, is appended: Answering your questionnaire ofOctober 6, 1920, Does the height, area and use of buildings erected in anylocality affect the assessable value of adjoining property? will say that myannual instructions to the assessors of this department recognizes the factthat it does and the assessment rolls show numerous instances where allow-ances have been made upon adjoining property due to the detrimental effectof such buildings. One of the late cases in point is the Abbot building, sit-uated on the northwest corner of Milwaukee and Mason streets, just east ofthe Milwaukee Athletic Club. Mr. Abbot appeared before the board andpointed out the fact that, due to the extreme height of the club building, thefive lower floors on the west side of the Abbot building have been greatlyaffected, making it necessary to use artificial light thro
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