The up-to-date population figures furnished by the 1940 Federal Census are bringing home to many of the older and more populous communities in New York and its Environs a realization that their zoning ordinances and maps have been based upon a future growth which will never occur, or, as is more often the case, have been made without any real analysis of the extent of business, multi-family housing and industrial requirements in the present or future.
Those communities without the protection of a zoning ordinance are turning to zoning as a means of avoiding the problems of blight, which are menacing the older communities.
