ABSTRACT
An important formative element in the Regional Plan's approach to planning for future metropolitan density and population distribution was the population projections which were adopted in 1922. The work of the Regional Plan would also help to base zoning on rational overall planning. Through 1924, the Regional Plan staff moved ahead on three fronts, zoning, traffic studies, and public relations. Zoning, which had been conceived only eight years before, was at the time spreading rapidly across the Region and the country, often in ways which Bassett and his associates regarded as improper. Edward Bassett chaired the subcommittee on zoning and Harold M. Lewis contributed to the traffic and highway studies. Haig's economic studies had been completed, Bassett had provided much new thinking on zoning and land use controls, and Harold Lewis and William Wilgus had respectively developed regional highway and railroad schemes.
