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of conferences and such other means as may be
provided by the regulations.” In Germany it has
been found that generally the property owner has
recognised the wisdom of town extension plans.
There, many of the municipalities have secured
parliamentary powers enabling them to pool the land
and to redistribute it between the different owners.
By this means the cutting of wide avenues—which
not uncommonly in large towns may attain a width
of 150 feet—does not penalise the owners through
whose land the avenues are cut. It is even possible
—and in fact is arranged—in the case of streets
traversing the face of a slope, to build on one side
only of a street, so that the streets are terraced one
above another in such a manner that a beautiful
prospect is unmarred for any of the houses built on
the slope.
COMPENSATION CLAUSES.
Although no such powers of pooling the land
appear to have been granted in the Act, it is to be
noted that Sect. 58 provides for compensation in
respect of property injuriously affected by the scheme