(Repeat) What Once Was “Good order, good taste, and with due regard to public interests involved”: the origins of the Shipstead-Luce Act
What Once Was
“Good order, good taste, and with due regard to public interests involved”: the origins of the Shipstead-Luce Act
By Matthew B. Gilmore*
originally PUBLISHED: JULY 20TH, 2017
On May 16, 1930 Congress approved Public Law 231, “An Act to regulate the height, exterior design, and construction of private and semipublic buildings in certain areas of the National Capital” — now commonly referred to as the Shipstead-Luce Act.
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