Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-17
PROTEST AGAINST
KALAKAUA PAVING
ON PRESENT PLAN
Property Owners and Repre-.
Sentatives Think City Should
Pay so Per Cent OF Cost
MANY URGE WARRENITE
INSTEAD OF CONCRETE
Think BituIithic Material Has
Proved Itself in Honolulu,
Others Have Not

Kalakaua avenue paving plans Will
be materially changed If the desires
of group of property-owners who
met this morning In the Young hotel
are complied with tomorrow night by
the board of supervisors.
More than a dozen owners and rep
Tesentatives of owners of Kalakaua
avenue frontage met In the makai pa
vilion of the hotel and decided with
one dissenting vote to advocate the
city's paying so per cent OF the total
cost of the Improvement The proper
ty-owners also generally seemed to
favor warrenite as the paving material
to be used
IL either or both of these desires
are agreed to by the board the kala-
kaua Improvement will be considerab-
ly changed. The supervisors have
been advertising the improvement and
tomorrow night a definite decision is
to be reached. The proposal as adver.
tised is that the city pay one-third oil
the cost, the remainder to be borne
by the abutting property, and 1t was
declared at this mornings meeting
that the supervisors almost undoubt-
edly will favor concrete as the paving
material
The meeting was called last week,
largely by attorneys on behalf OF In
terested property-owners. and those
present this morning were very large
ly such attorneys.
Three Main Features.
The discussion Of the meeting re-
solved itself substantially into the fol-
lowing features:
1. Do the property-owners agree
that the city shall pay one-third and
the frontage, property two-thirds OF the
Improvement
2. What paving material do the
property-owners wish?
8. Are the property-owners Wiling
TO abide by the present plan OF assess.
ing the property fronting on kalakaua
avenue, or do they wish to have a.
zone" created by which property not
fronting directly on the avenue, Du.
lying adjacent, shall share the cos'
of the Improvement.
To the first question there was I'M
mediate and virtually unanimous ais
agreement. Several speakers declared
that Kalakaua avenue is so mucn
main thoroughfare that the city's gen.
eral funds should pay more than one
third of the cost of improvement.
was recited that on a Manoa street
the city is proposing to pay as nlgn
as 25 per cent of the cost, and no Ma
noa street is as characteristicaliy a
main Observation-Disclosures all the
city and used by general city traffic
as Kalakaua. One or two suggestions
were heard that the city should stano
so per cent of the cost, but when sentl-
ment had crystaIized little motion
30 urge that the city pay one-halt tne
cost carried easily.
Comments Vary on Paving.
Discussion on the second question
was long and various opinions were
heard. In the beginning Attorney l..
]. Warren, who acted as chairman OF
the meeting, called on G. II. Gere'
former city engineer and now superin-
tendent OF the Bishop estate, for
statement on the comparative cost oil
various materials. Mr.. Gere gave the
following figures as the estimates OF
the city engineering department ior
the Kalakaua avenue improvement:
Bitulithic Tor warrenite), $2.2O per
square yard.
Concrete, $3.50 per square yard.
Asphalt-macadam, $1.10 per square
yard.
He said in response to question
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