East Boston: a survey and a comprehensive plan . in thoroughfares, retail districts occupy themost prominent points. The principal retail, banking andoffice section is at and between Maverick and Centralsquares. All through the residence areas in and amongthe tenement houses are many small stores, too many, infact, for the good of the community, since they are notwell supported and therefore cannot be well maintained. The areas not especially adapted to use for wholesaleand storage purposes, for manufacturing or for retailtrade are in part used for residential purposes and inpart still vacant.
East Boston: a survey and a comprehensive plan . in thoroughfares, retail districts occupy themost prominent points. The principal retail, banking andoffice section is at and between Maverick and Centralsquares. All through the residence areas in and amongthe tenement houses are many small stores, too many, infact, for the good of the community, since they are notwell supported and therefore cannot be well maintained. The areas not especially adapted to use for wholesaleand storage purposes, for manufacturing or for retailtrade are in part used for residential purposes and inpart still vacant. Among the residences there are anumber of small industries that have developed in oldbuildings on cheap rear lands and in stables, where theyconstitute a serious fire menace as suggested by the spotsshown on the fire risk map (Fig. 10). Woodworking and 62 City Planning Board. paint shops and junk shops especially are recognized to bevery great fire hazards that should not be permitted inthe housing district, since many lives are so FIG. 19.—BOUNDARY AND AREA MAP. Showing original areas of the four islands, black; area within existing harbor lines, dark;extensions proposed by the Port Directors, medium; and maximum area that may eventually beincluded in the East Boston boundaries, light. Further development of such industries should be pre-vented and those that now exist should be removed. The approximate area of land within the limits of EastBoston was reported in 1912 to be 528 acres occupied, Development of East Boston. 63 356 acres unoccupied and 907 acres of vacant marshesand fiats, or only about 60 per cent of the available landand only about 30 per cent of the total possible area insidethe river and harbor lines occupied. The original area ofthe two main islands and of the two islands in the harborthat may eventually become part of East Boston was1,435 acres. The present area to the harbor lines is 1,925acres. The extension proposed by the Port Directors w
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