The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-21
LONG HEARINGS ON
 PROPOSED CHANGES
 OF BUILDING LINES
Sacred Heart Pastor and Others Oppose OVerhanging Block at South and Myrtle Avenues.

Hearings on petitions to change or to establish building lines in various parts of the city held the boards at the meeting of the Common Council last night.
 Percy P. Anderson was the only man who appeared in favor of the petition of David Lane to extend eight feet over the building line on the northeast corner of Myrtle and South avenues He said that MT. Lane proposed to erect a business block there that would be a credit to the community and would add to the taxes of the city but MT. Lane did not have quite room enough under the present building line.
 arose and said that 75 per cent. of the property owners of that. section, in cIuding pr. R. F. Moore, pastor of the Sacred Heart church, were opposed to the petition to abolish 1he building line. Alderman MacFayden said they opposed the petition because it would affect the property of the Sacred Heart church as well as their own property. He said that when the church was built permission was gtv- en, with the consent of all property owners, to extend the church steps of the church over the building line.
 He said the section was a, residential one and that to grant the petition would damage property in the vtcin- ity. A remonGtrance against granting the petition was read from kor. Moore, and 15 property owners of Myrtle ave- nue.
 The petition was referred back to the committee on streets and sidewalks. Attorney Daniel E. Brennan, repre- senting J. P Seeley, a property owner in that section, also opposed the Geti- tion.
 r-1-. ,.o-,o-+ oe +ha -.oo1,yoi++ee oy, streets and sidewalks favor1ng the es- TtabIishment of a six foot building line in Fairn1ount avenue and in North avenue to Beers street in that vicinity, caused much discussion.
 The petition to establish the build ing line was brought tby John F1aherty and other property owners who have built along such a line. John Neary owns a lot at North avenue and Fair mount avenue which has a frontage of 30 feet on Fairmount avenue. Other property owners are fearful that sone will be on the street line and shut off their view.
 Alderman Brady moved that the pefftion be referred back to the com nafttee and Alderman Stewart second ed the motion Alderman Walker. who was presiding objected. He said that as chairman of the Streets and Side walks committee he had given much time to an investigatiou of the peti- ton and he felt it was a, just request and that other property owners who had built homes in the street should be protected.
 The motion to refer the petition to the committee was lost and the coun- Gil then voted to establish the line, Alderman Brady being recorded as voting in the negative.
 Attorney J. B. Klein appeared in favor of the petition of the Connecti- cut Breweries Co. and the New Ha- ven road for permission to lay a spur track in Housatonic avenue into the brewery there. Attorney Klein said that this track would facilitate the work of loading and unloading the cars used in the company's business and would also prevent congestion of traffic in the street which is now of ten partially blocked by the com pany's trucks. No one opposed the petition and it was referred to the Committee on Streets and Sidewalks.
 Other petitioners, were hard briefly on these matters:
 Ordering layout and acceptance of Atwater street as public street.
 Ordering acceptance and layout of Cornwall street as a public street.
 Relative to petition of Whitehead Jones Go. for acceptance and layout of Charrcn street and GrenelIe street.
 Ordering establishm ment of grade on East avenue.