The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-16
MAIN STREET
 BUILDING LINE
 HITS LIBRARY
Directors Say That It's In- position Would Do Bur roughs Building Great
 Damage
Building of Rogers Co. Be-
 ing Hurried to Completioll
 Will Reach Beyond Line.

Fearing that the property of the Burroughs Public Library building, Main and John street, will be serious ly damaged if the proposed eight foot building lines from John to Bank streets. is finally adopted by the Common Council. the board of direc- tors of the library are preparing to urge the board of appraisal to recorn- mend to the Common Council that it's recent action on the building line be rescinded.
 This is the line proposed by a spe- cial committee considering Main street building lines. The store of Kline Bros. is built out flush with the five foot building line that used to exist Tn Main street, and the store of the Rogers Co.,, which is to be in the old City Bakery property, is being built out flush with the old five foot fine.
 advice in continuing with it's building work. While actual work on the building was not begun until the Common Council had ordered the board of appraisal to go ahead with estimates of damages and benefits on the eight foot line, the. Rogers co. has been advised that the building line does not actually come into be- ing until the report of the board of appraisal of benefits and damages on the building line is approved by the
 Common Council.
 This is something like the situation that arose when the Sagal building and Water street The new building line was not really in existence until the work was practically completed.
 Owners of property along the dis trict involved had expected that the new building line meant that the
 Kline Bros. would be forced to get
 back of the eight foot line. Now
 that they have learned that the Kline
 Bros and the Rogers Co. are to be
 out to the five foot line, and that the eight foot line if no opposition is
 made, will soon prevent any others in the block from comirg out. they expect to file claims -srr heavy danI- ages at the hearings of the board of appraisal, with view to persuading the board of appraisal to recommend that the old line be revived.
 The directors of the library are hopeful of selling the library building
 at Main and John streets in the near future. They plan to use the pro- ceeds of the. sale in the purchase of land and construction of a new H. brary building, probably somewhere in the vicinity of the proposed new High School They fear that if the eight foot building line is finally confirmed, and the adjoining building, that of the Kline Bros, is left intact, the value of the library property. which
 must remain back of the new line, will be considerably iessened.
 The only way the city can force the Kline Bros. to remove the store front which now projects beyond the adjacent structures several feet, Is by widening the street itself. Under this
 condition the city could compel the building to be removed, as an ob- struction of the street, but the owners would be awarded damages for the loss of their property.
 1 Meanwhile the building of the Rog- CTS Go. carefully screened by sight proof wooden apron, is being hurried l to completion, that the new concern may have it's building up and out to the old line before the new one Is con l firmed.