The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-18
THE PAYING ASSESSMENTS
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stood that people living on the streets
where the pavement had been laid were
willing to pay a pro rata share, but
that they thought that the amount Of
the assessment should not be determin-
ed by the legislature two years before
the pavement was laid, but by the
board Of compensation of New Haven.
He thought that the people wanted as
sesaments laid according to benefits and
damages, and if the proposed bill did
not cover it, it should be amended so
that it would.
Frank S. Platt said that the pave
ment laid under the present law had
proved a delusion and was not perma-
ment. The pavement formerly in front
of his property, he said, was better than
the pavement there now He would
rather pay for that old pavement than
to pay one cent for the pavement there
now. He said that the present pave
ment was no Improvement, the pave
ment he alluded to being on West Chap
ell street.
Prentice w. Chase favored tha Chill
lngworth amendment except as to the
amount mentioned in paragraph two
and though that the amounts mem
toned by Mr.. Macdonald would be fair
err He said that the streets paved were
not for the particular benefit Of the
people living on those streets, but rath-
er for the general public. 1t might be
so and it might not, that abutting
property owners received special ben
eft. He though the city ought to pay
IL property was damaged, and he con-
IL, 1,p,No Al c,t,,
nuisance and damage to the property,
as much of a nuisance as the
snow on the green, and he
was not sure but that the West
Chapel street pavement could be Or
dered up as nuisance. He said it now
contained ruts almost large enough
to lie in and was in no sense a perma-
nent pavement He said that New Ha-
ven was the poorest paved city In New
England He though that the bill was
in it's entirety as we'll drafted as any
bill could be with the exception of the
amounts named as a limit for assess
ments Mayor Farnsworth asked If
the common council had taken action
on the bill. Mr.. Chillingworth replied
that it had been referred to commit
tee and tabled by the committee on
legislation. The mayor explained q bill
proposed by Henry r.. Blake, providing
q plan of assessment for paving based
on the same theory of the assessment
for sewers, and said that he thought
the idea q good one.
Talcott ii. Russell asked Just where |
the advocates of legislation stand if |
Mr. Ely advocated the Chilllngworth |
bill with amendment as to amounts of |
assessments, as suggested by Mr.. Mac
donald. Mr.. Ely said that if the figures
named in the bill We're not just let the |
committee fix the amount. He thought |
that Mr. Macdonald knew more about |
the proper amount to assess than any
one else in the state. Mr.. Russell said |
thnt much heavy traffic went over
Y ooster street, and that in 1878 heavy
+ lvement was laid there and the prop
urty owners paid for that 5000 assess
ment per lineal foot. The pavement
was not kept in repair, the city neglect
ed 1t. The Wooster street property
owners hold that while the brick pave
ment is an advantage to heavy traffic
it is a disadvantage to the residents in
the street. being very noisy. The resi-
dents to not feel that they ought to pay
another assessment when pavement
adequate to the needs of the citizens on
the street was torn up and the new
pavement put down to accommodate |
the heavy traffic which goes through