Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-04-09
IMPROVEMENT IS
AIM OF MANOA
Local Assessment Plan En-
dOrSGd and viii Be Pushed
Hard.

The Mauoa Improvement Club last
night took up and discussed the plan
for getting street improvements by
assessing abutting and benefited prop.
Crtv.
This plan was before the last Lcgis.
laturc on bill introduced in the
House by Representative Towsc, hut
il came into the session late and was
not worked out thoroughly enough to
satisfy the legislators. II has also
been discussed frequently by the
Sanitary Commission. and measure
to insure local improvement, similar
in essential form to that before tho
NauOa club. is recommended in the
Sanitary Commissions report.
Briefly, the plan is to assess abut.
ting property for local Improvement
and put the initiative for such i'm.
proyomcnt in the power Of the rest
dents. Such a plan Is common on the
mainland and works we'll.
The Manoa club approved the plan
and II win he taken mp with the Con
trail Improvements Committee. and an
endCavOr made to secure concerted
action TO get the necessary bill
through the next LEGISLATURE. The
club met at the home Of President r..
l.. Wald"on MIR. &. G. owen. who led
in the presentation Of the plan, gave
a clear statement OF what the plan Is.
He said in part:
at Is common knowledge how
streets are built on the mainland un.
der tho abutting ownership plan, and
how miles of frst-Class streets run.
ming through new residence sections
are to he seen in any suburban local.
ity. Therefore, why should we in Ha.
waii content ourselves with methods
theoretically wrong and practically
unsatisfactory? In the valley are an.
proximatcly $4,000 running feet OF
roadway averaging thirty feet vide,
in the area bounded by Wilder avenue,
Mctcalf street. Upper Manoa road,
thence TO the Mid-Paciic Institute
property line, along the property line
Of the College of Hawaii to MetCali
street, not including streets already
improved.
Assuming It will cost (as the City
and County Engineer fguresl SO per
running foot to put down tirst-Class
oil macadam road covering this area,
we have sum of Sl17,9OO. And It is
also estimated that before such
streets are so improved that a storm
sewer system draining this area into
the Manoa stream would have to be
installed.
Sewer system Cost.
THE sewer system will cost IN the
(neighborhoOd of $4,000, making to.
tai Of $4,000 for roads and sewers.
Figuring that by dint of hard work
upon the part of the local improve
ment club, the Board of Supervisors
should generously allow $4,000 per
annum for ManOa roads Chighly i'm.
probable considering the many outly.
ing districts urging appropriations for
their particular streets 1t would take
nearly fifteen years to get funds
enough to put Manoa into the shape
II ought to be in right at the present
time.
"On a basis of 50 per running foot
of 3O.foot roadway. the City and
County would pay $50, the property
owner on each side of the street
would nay - cents per front foot or
$75 on a 1O0-foot lot. II is also fig
ured that the taxes on the enhanced
value OF the property improved would
bring in sufficient funds to take care
of the City and County half of the oh.
legation. As the City and County can
be empowered by the Legislature to
borrow money for such purposes, such
fact having been already ascertaincd
from the Attorney Generals Office,
there need be no obstacle from that
direction"