Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-01
STREET widening PLAN
READY FOR COMMITTEES.
I Ordinance for Acquisition Of Prop
crtY ON fourteenth Street to Be
Considered December If.
WILL RELIEVE CONGESTION
After Nearly Two Years Delay, City
Takes Up Problem OF Providing
Adequate Approaches for Mayo
Bridge-Alternate Plan Suggested.

Pursuant 70 the recommendation of
the Council Committee on Streets. City
attorney Pollard is now engaged In
putting into the form OF an ordinance
the committees decision to recommend
to the Council the widening of Four
steenth Street in accordance with the
proposition submitted by T.. S. Rose
and his associates. Tile completed or
dinance will be laid before the com
mittee at it's next regular meeting, on
December IA, when 1t will be sent on
10 the Council for adoption.
At the last meeting of the Street
Committee 1t was found that the blue
print of the property to be acSuired,
prepared by City Engineer Boiling,
while Ii showed the boundaries of tho
properties in question, omitted the
names OF the owners. City Attorney
Pollard was unwilling to proceed with
the preparation OF the ordinance until
the blue print was made more explicit,
and Mr.. Boiling undertook to supply
the omitted data ut once.
READY TO MAKE REPORT
TO STREET COMMITTEE
The required Information is now be-
fore the City Attorney, who will be
ready to present the completed ordl-
nance directing the acquisition Of the
needed properties when the Street Com
mittee holds it's next regular meeting.
The accompanying map shows the
Fourteenth Street route. which has
been recommended by the committee
as well rs the proposed widening of
Fifteenth Street to relieve congested
traffic conditions in the lower down.
town section. Under q recent contract
with the Southern Railway Company,
= strip of the railroads right of way
was acquired by the city, large enough
TO make Fourteenth Street eighty feet
wide from the Mayo Bridge to the
north wall OF the Dock. and sixty. feet
nf l1a
10 Cary Street.
IN order to open direct approach
10 the bridge. the committee has
recommended Il plan, proposed by Il. S.
Rose and associates. for the widening
of Fourteenth Street, from Main to
Cary Streets, to Il width of sixty feet
except Mt the intersection of Main
street, where the width of Fourteenth
street Will expand TO eighty-one feet
WILL PARE OFFS FRONTS OF
FOURTEENTH STREET STORES
The widening of the Fourteenth
Street block between Main and Cary
Streets, will be efrected>by pairing the
fronts OF the properties fronting on the
east side OF Fourteenth Street. In or
der to compensate for this pairing, it
is proposed to open new fourty-four-
foot short street east of Fourteenth.
between Main and Cary Streets, and to
allow extensions in the rear equal in
properties OH Fourteenth Street
IL is estimated that the widening can
be effected for an outside price of $685.
900. This sum is to include the cost
Of making all necessary alterations in
the buildings affected, OF tearing down
such buildings as will have To be re-
moved altogether. of repairing Four
teenth Street and the proposed new
street, including sidewalks and curb
ing. and OF a concrete bridge over the
Dock.
The plan provides that the city shall
acquire by condemnation proceedings
or otherwise. the building at 140l East
Main Street. valued at $4,000: the build
ings at 1919 and l431 East Main Street,
valued ut S55,000 and a building and
forty cight feet of ground in Exchange
Alley, valued at 10000 Rose and as
= sociates have secured the permission
of the property owners on Fourteenth
street for the necessary alterations, but
the Main Street and Exchange Alley
properties. needed for the opening of
the new street, will haze TO be ac-
CURED by the city through the regular
channels.
ROSE AND ASSOCIATES OFFER
no DO WORK. FOR s:65,OOO
In accordance with the plan sub
mittcd by them to the city, Rose and
his, associates are ready To carry out
the whole Improvement for "a guaran-
teod price of se65.000, the city to ac-
quirc those properties that can be had
only through condemnation proceed
ings. If the city chooses to do the
work itself, using their plans. the pro-
motors are TO receive i per cent of the
cost OF the Improvement for their
initiative and their work in pcrfcctinG
The plans.
'rhcr. is pending hcforc the Street,
Committee alsA. an independent rcsolu-
ton directing ,she Widening Of Eff
teenth street and Dock Street to uni
form width OF eighty feet, for the pur-
pose OF relieving congcstcd traffic con-
ditions cast of Fifteenth Street The
widening Of this street is strongly
recommended by City Engineer Boiling,
and has the support OF many members
IN the Council.