foreseeable future and that there were no good grounds for a Government loan to finance either project, and this recommendation was accepted by Government, together with a proposal that there should be a second vehicular ferry service.
141. With the secondment of an Engineer to the Planning section, detailed road planning was taken over during the year, but this was handed back to the Roads Office when the Engineer in question had to be transferred to other urgent duties. Parking continued to be a matter of concern, and a policy was established that wherever necessary, new leases should contain a condition requiring the owners to provide parking space within the lot boundaries.
142. In connection with many of the above matters, the scope of the existing Town Planning Ordinance was reviewed, but for various reasons, the review was not completed.
143. During the year, planning matters engaged an increased amount of public attention in all the Councils and Committees of the Colony, and the Planning section provided an increasing amount of material and advice for their consideration.
144. Survey
The functions of this section are as follows:
(a) To provide evidence to identify land conveyed by any title issued by Government. This is Cadastral Survey proper, and together with the setting out of new lots, street lines, and building lines, re-establishment of old lot boundaries, and building line checks required for the development of properties, forms the greater part of the work.
(b) To make reliable plans and maps of the Colony. At present, field work is limited to large-scale survey for the making of 50 feet to 1 inch plans of the urban area.
(c) General Surveys. This includes surveys for Police cases, contour surveys for planning purposes, and miscellaneous surveys.
145. Any survey work done must be tied to the system of colony control points, the positions of which, both horizontally and vertically, relative to each other, are known with a certain degree of precision. During the year, this system of control
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