The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-05-03
STREET IMPROVEMENT.
Little Light Thrown Upon IRIS
Mooted question.
Some Figures Showing the Feasibility
and Cost of improvements Under
the 90 Per Cent. ASSESS
ment Plan.

Since the City Council has levied an
assessment of 90 per cent. on an aouV-
ting property on certain streets III van Sall-
ton fog the purpose of making lniPrSVet s,'t
ments, the idea has gotten ABROAD CllaV n'...
the levy would be 98 per cent on eyIly
foot front of the abuttlng properly.
This is an error which we take pleeasS'u'le
" A T DETooRAr reporter this morning
made an examination as TO the coS'
which will ensue by reason OF the ds'
aessment, The result Of his lnVestlg'-
The C;tg Council at its last meetlng, g,
ordered the City solicitor 10 DrlnS u. "a; a.
the necessary papers, resolutions orul-
nances. etc. pertaining to the 1olloWlng
streets which will be Improved uIluel
the 98 per cent. assessmenI pl"p' W.,
South street TO be graded from val
lev railroad to the corporation line; the
assessment will be as cents per Hllea'
foot front at total cost for the Srau'
nueber avenue, from TuscaraWas TO
Navarro street: assessment per llIlei'i
foot front, 80 cents; total cost, $5,OOo.
East TuscaraWas street, from EasI
bridge to corporation line; assessment
Is 4-iO cents: total cost, $3.50.
Navarro street, from Henry avenue
to corporation line; assessment, ~
cents; total cost, 81, ,l3O. Hoo. 30
North Market, from Lake street 10
corporation line; assessment, 10 DIV
cents; total cost, 1886.
All of the above items pertain 10
grading and graveling the streets
The following thorOughfares TO nP
Dermanently improved with tire DrlcK,
etc. costs to be paid on the 70 per cehC
pSan, as follows:
Court street, between Eighth and
Niath: cost per lineal foot front, Sl.o5;
total cost, 1874.
Court street, between Fifth ana rus
carawas: cost for paving road bed,
(fiagging) per lineal foot front, Sl:lo;
having Sidewalk, $102 per foot. TO
tai cost of Improvement, $644. A por-
fionof this street has already been I'M
proved in the limits named.
Thus it will be seen that the streets
named will be improved at very rea-
aonable cOstr--far below what many OF
our citizens have supposed 1t would De'
And while the Improvements can pe
made at low figure, the value oi
lands along these thOroughfares VIII
he materially increased, besides adding
a hundred fold to the appearance OF
the same.
For years the street improvements III
Canton have been carried on III a very
slip.shod and desultory manner, Win
no attempt at system or rapldlty: bul
during the past year or so TINS nas
changed. and improving the city streecS
has been conducted in business ike
Way, and its effects can readily be seen
Had this system of improvement been
commenced ten or fifteen years ago
great many of our streets would now
have been in good condition, and the
money which has been lost in Keeping
ND the repairs of our muddy thorough
fares would have been saved TO the TAX
By following this plan, it is said OF
good authority, that within the mex
YEAR the Ulcity council can i'm
prove the following streets per
manenlly: Market street, from
Fifth to Lake; Poplar, from Tus
carawas to Lake; East TuscaraWasS
from Cherry to the Ft. Wayne road
South Market, from the tt. wayne
railway to Charles.
We trust our citizens will approve OF
the action of council in this direction
In this way citizen pays for the i'm
provement of his own property an(
for no other. This is surely just ant
Foin