Outer Area Zoning Map and Core Area Zoning Map

Outer Area Zoning Map and Core Area Zoning Map

1970

Murphy & Kren Planning Associates Inc.

A zoning map of Saratoga Springs' core and outer areas.

English

Murphy & Kren Planning Associates Inc.

Saratoga Springs (N.Y.)--Maps

City of Saratoga Springs City Planning Board

This planning map shows that city planners in Saratoga Springs continued to focus on development and expansion throughout the 1970s. The map intends to draw businesses and investors into the area.

“Outer Area Zoning Map and Core Area Zoning Map,” Skidmore Saratoga Memory Project, accessed March 23, 2015, http://ssmp.skidmore.edu/items/show/160.

Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library

Murphy & Kren Planning Associates Inc.

1971

1971

Core Area, May 1970, adopted by February 1971
Outer Area Map, Revised June 17, 1971 and adopted by the City Council on July 7, 1971. (colored)

In 1970, the City Planning Board worked with Murphy & Kren Planning Associates, Inc. on a map and report for the New York State Department of Commerce Bureau making recommendations for a 20-year development plan that identified Cady Hill and the area by I-87 as places to grow industry, and Geyser Crest and the West Side as targets for residential development. This plan, financially aided by federal and state funds, was adopted by the city council in February 1971.

This map includes more kinds of land use than in 1937 (seasonal, high and medium density residential, commercial; industrial; parks; public/semi-public; track), but the overall thrust is the same. The Murphy & Kren map highlights development interests beyond Broadway’s axis and the corporation line “inner” district and the report underlines the need for schools to be integrated in new neighborhoods.

1970 and 1971 Core Area Development Maps

Saratoga Room, Saratoga Springs Public Library

Property and Development

12/2/2014