Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-30
OBJECT TO COST
OF PARK ADDITION
Citizens Circulate Petition Pro-
testing Against Further
Assessment
CLAIM TAXATION EXCESSIVE
Assert People Buying Homes on
InStaIIments Now Bur-
dened to Limit
CLAIM TAXATION EXCESSIVE

Estimates of the probable cost of
condemning, for park purposes, the Los
Angeles Railway compapys car house
site near Agricultural park and the
Los Angeles and Redondo railway s
four-track right of way along the pro-
posed extension of Santa Barbara ave-
nue. and Hoover street have caused a
number Of citizens living in the as
sessment district, which would be com-
PEELED to pay for the condemned prop
erty, to put a petition in circulation
protesting against the city council
condemning any more property for
park purposes.
This protest was drawn up at a mass
meeting held a few nights ago. At the
conclusion of the meeting fifty of those
present volunteered to circulate IT
among the residents of the district.
A similar meeting has been called
for Monday evening, October 8, to be
held in the Christian church, Thirty
ninth street and Budlong avenue, at
which time formal action will be taken
to protest against further assessments
in this district.
CIRCULATE PROTEST
The following is the protest being
circulated:
To the Honorable Council of the
City of Los Angeles:
Gentlemen-We, the undersigned,
owning real estate adjacent to Ag-
ricultural park and in proposed as
sessment district, hereby protest in
general against the condemnation
of any further property for the en-
largement of Agricultural park,
and in particular against the con-
demnation Of the strip of ground
at the southerly end of said park
along Santa Barbara avenue. We
also protest against the condem-
nation of the private right of way
known as Santa Barbara avenue
extending along the southerly end
of said park, and against the con-
demnation OF the private right Of
way known as Hoover street, eX-
tending from Santa Barbara ave-
nue. southerly for four miles, more
or less, and against the opening
of Hoover street northerly from
Santa Barbara avenue into Agri-
cultural park. We protest against
further assessment or taxation In
lieu of such assessment.
|, The assessments for any or all
of these improvements would be
an excessive additional burden on
the people. The total cost would
approximate a half million dollars.
Should the strip of improved
business and residence property at
the west OF Agr1CulIuTdl park anu
between it and Vermont avenue be
condemned, we believe 1t would
cost another half million dollars at
least.
We respectively insist that the
majority of individual owners are
opposed to any further assessment,
and that the signatures of corpor-
ations holding the record title to
the property or the majority inter-
est therein, but having sold said
property on easy terms, should not
be accepted in favor of any assess
ment. If further assessments are
levied hundreds Of people now buy
ing homes on installments will lose
their proptrey.
We respectively remind your hon
orable body that there are four
assessments now levied against the
people in this neighborhood, towit:
To condemn the Figueroa strip
at the east of Agricultural park.
To condemn an entire block at
the northwest corner of the park.
To condemn property for two 1SO-
foot entrances from Vermont ave-
nue. into the park, one at Thirty
ninth street and one at Leighton
avenue.
To pave Vermont avenue.