The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-10
PLENTY OF PROTESTS
WILL RE MADE TO COUNCIL
AGAINST WATSON ORDINANCE.
NOT LIKELY IT WILL PASS.
PROPERTY OWNERS OPPOSED TO
1T As IL STANDS.

Mayor Myers Said That Property
Owners Opposed TO the side walk
Ordinance, viii Be Given an OPP
portunfty to Be Heard-SeVeral
Members of the Council Not i'm Fa-
vOr of the Plan TO Pave All the
streets Named-Sidewalks i'm
Tricky settled Districts should
First Re Improved.
An opportunity will be given proper
ty owners to appear before the City
Council and present their objections to
the ordinance introduced by Alderman
Watson to pave sidewalks in
some of the more remote
and undeveloped sections of the
city. Mayor Myers said yesterday that
notice will be given that any objections
to the ordinance will be heard from
property owners.
The ordinance was read the first
time in Council Dec. 30, and at Wed
nesday's meeting protest from prop
erty owners, which appeared in Thurs
days Morning News, was submitted.
The ordinance and the protest were re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole
1t is improbable that the ordinance
will pass. 1t may be amended, SO as
to leave out some of the streets that
are clearly too undeveloped to justify
such an expense being entailed upon
lot owners.
Several aldermen were asked for their
views upon the ordinance, and nearly
all said they considered it an. imposi-
ton upon property owners on some
streets. An inspection of all the
streets named in the ordinance will be
made before it is voted upon. q'-
1t is urged by some that paving
sidewalks means the development of
property and the enhancement of
values. One Alderman remarked that
this was a matter of opinion, and as
the property owners are those vitality
interested, being those to whom any
benefits might accrue and upon whom
the expense of the work would fall, it
should be left to them to say whether
sidewalks should be laid along wide
stretches of unimproved land, as in the
case of some of the streets named in
the ordinance.
''Why doesn't the Alderman turn his
attention to the sidewalks in some of
the older and poorer sections of the
city, instead of trying to establish side
walks in localities where they would
weather away before the property is
ever improved?" asked a gentleman
who was impressed by the injustice of
an effort to fix so heavy an expense
upon property owners in the section
aimed at by the Watson ordinance. 81
had occasion to visit Yamacraw a few
days ago. and the sidewalks on some
of the streets | went through were
miserable. Now that is a thickly popu-
lated district, where there should be
good sidewalks. 1t strikes me that it
is absurd to go to the extreme limits
of the city and demand the laying of
sidewalks where very few people pass
while hundreds, who pass daily over
the miserable walks of thickly settled
sections, have no provision for their
safety or comfort"
The following are the streets that
are named in the ordinance upon which
sidewalks are to be required: Haber-
sham, from Thirty to Estill
avenue; Price street. from Thirty-sixth
to Estill avenue: East Broad street,
from Gwinnett to Estill avenue: At
lantic street: Paulsen street, Harmon
street, OFT street. Waters road Ander-
son street, Henry street, Duffy street.
limits: Park avenue, from East Broad
street, east to the city limits: Wald-
burg street. from East Broad street
east to the city limits; Bolton street,
from East Broad street east to the city
limits: Gwnnett street, from East
Broad street, east to the city limits
Wheaton street, from Randolph street
east to the city limits; Wolfe street:
Joe street. Rockefeller street Flagler
street, and Frank street.
A number of these streets are in the
fields east of the Plant System tracks:
others extend through Collnsville, TAX
ing in the unimproVed section directly
east of the Plant System property.
If property owners do not have the
work done within sixty days from the
passage of the ordinance, if it passes.
the city will proceed to lay the side
walks with hard brick and charge the
cost to the property owners.
One alderman declared that property
owners have had too great demands
made upon them of late, and that the
time is not ripe for such Improvements
in those sections for which they are
proposed. The alderman said that he
knows how the owners of the prop
ertv. as rule, are situated, and that
they are in no position to meet the
expense of laying sidewalks that would
be useless.
The property owners affected are dis
cussng the ordinance, and it is proba-
BILE that there will be a considerable
delega ton before Council when the
ordinance is brought up for consid-
Grafton.
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