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 Bitulithic Material Has
Proved Itself in Honolulu,
Others Have Not

Kalakaua avenue paving plans will
be materially changed If the desires
of a group OF property-owners who
met this morning I'm the Young hotel
are complied with tomorrow night by
the board OF supervisors
More than dozen owners and rp-
eresentatives OF owners of Kalakaua
avenue frontage met in the makai pa
viIion 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
II either or both of these desires
are agreed to by the board the kala-
kaua Improvement will be considerao-
ly changed. The supervisors have
been advertising the Improvement and
tomorrow night definite decision is
to be reached. The proposal as adver-
tised is that the city pay one-third OF
the cost. the remainder to be borne
by the abutting property, and II was
declared at this mornings meeting
that the supervisors almost undouDt-
edly win 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 we're very large
ly such attorneys.
Three Main Features.
The discussion OF the meeting re-
solved itself Substantially into the tot
lowing features:
j. Do the property-owners agree
that the city shall pay one-third ano
the frontage property two-thirds OF the
Improvement?
2. What paving material do the
property-o owners wish?
8. Are the property y-owners willing
TO abide blythe present plan OF assess
ing the property fronting on kalakaua
avenue, or do they wish to nave
zone" created by which property not
fronting directly on the avenue, puI
lying adjacent, shall share the COST
OF the Improvement.
To the first question there was i'm
mediate and virtually unanimous DIS
agreement. Several speakers declared
that Kalakaua avenue is so much
main thoroughfare that the city's gen.
eral funds should pay more than one
third of the cost of improvement. IL
was recitad that on Manoa street
the city Is proposing to pay as nign
as 25 per cent of the cost, and no Ma
noa street is as characteristically
main thoroughfare-benef all the
city and used by general city traffic
as Kalakaua. One or two suggestions
were heard that the city should stand
so per cent of the cost, but when sentF
ment had crystalized little a motion
10 urge that the city pay one-half the
cost carried easily.
Comments Vary on Paving.
Discussion on the second quesuoh
was long and various opinions we're
heard. In the beginning Attorney L.
]. Warren, who acted as chairman OF
the meeting, called on G. H. Gere,
former city engineer and now supern-
tendent OF the Bishop estate, for a
on the comparative cost oil
various materials. Mr.. Gere gave the
following figures as the estimates OF
the city engineering department for
the Kalakaua avenue Improvement:
Bitulithic Tor warrenite), 1920 per
square yard.
Concrete, $1.60 per square yard.
Asphalt-macadam, $1.l0 per square
yard.
He said In response to a question
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