Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-03
PROPERTY OWNERS BEFORE COUNCIL
Several Raised Objections Grade and Construction of New Sidewalks Ordered-Resolutons Passed With Slight Changes-Greenevie Residents Petition for Nitrogen Lights-Petitoners Ask Acceptance of Cliff Street Ex- tension by City-Department Reports Accepted and Bills Approved.

Sidewalk hearings occupied the l greater part of the monthly meeting | of the court of common council in the council chamber on Monday evening. The hearings were on the walks and grades ordered at the last meeting of the council, and there were a number I of property owners present to remon- strate against certain provisions of i the orders. After the hearings the council took recess and decided to | let the original orders stand with sev- eral changes.
 The council was called to order at | 8 o'clock by His Honor Mayor Allyn l.. Brown and was immediately ad- l journed until after the annual town 1 meeting held in the town hall up stairs so that the council members 1 and any others present might at- | tend.
 | Just before ten o'clock the council reconvened. The reading of the min 1 utes of the last meeting was omitted and they were accepted.
 Clerk Arthur G. Crowe1l then read | his return of publication on the side walk changes ordered at the last meeting
 Side Walk Hearings Opened. Mayor Brown then declared the | hearing open on the lines, width and | grades of the westerly side of Union ] street. Rev. E. $. Worcester F. J. Leavens and others were heard in re- | gard to the matter. MT. Leavens said 1 he represented several property own i CTS, including himself, in that section, ! and he felt the walks are better than 1 the majority of walks on the city. He | thought the work might be postponed until next season owing to the late
 ness of the present season and the
 short time in which the property own
 CTS have to complete the walks I M9Vnr Brown said he fhnnOhf q
 much progross as possible should be | made this year on the walks. | Councilman Babcock asked whether 1 the line is straight or ziz-zags to to | ed out that the line called for is par
 allel with and twenty inches from the wall, and is as near a. straight line as 1 conditions permit.
 Attorney Huntington asked as to l the change of grade and Engineer 1 Pitcher said it is very nearly the same 1 as the present grade.
 MT. Huntington. who spoke for the l Huntington property thought a five | foot walk would answer as well as a
 six foot walk which is the width of the | walk ordered by the council. As there was no one else to be heard
 the hearing was then declared closed l and on motion of Councilman Babcock l decision was reserved until after the | other hearings.
 l lie SeCOud AGdI1lS was III TSSdTO | to the easterly line on Union street. Miss Lucas, who owns property there | was among those to be heard. She
 asked that a strip of two feet in width be left to allow for trees.
 l Mayor Brown said the intention. was | to leave such a strip but that it is | felt that this must be abandoned as some of the property owners feel that | it would be encroaching on their prop | erty.
 1 Walter Abendroth, who spoke for the | Dziomba property was against the proposed curb change.
 | Hearing No. was on the line and l width of the walk 0 nthe westerly side l of Broadway. D. T. Shea, a property | owner, asked as to the width of the
 walk ordered compared with the pres ent walk and was told it is the same. TheVline and width of the walks on l the easteriy side of Broadway were
 then taken up. Judge H. H. Pettis | to lay a granolithic walk up close to 1 the curb would kill the trees, which 1 derive but little nourishment as 1t is. l No one appeared at the hearing on | the line and width of the walks or
 dered on the easterly side of North
 Main street.
 | Hearings on Walk Construction 1 The hearings on the construction of 1 the walks were then taken up one at
 
 asked how soon it would be before | the property owners could get speci- l fcations. Engineer Pitcher said that
 so far they and been able to supply specifications as fast as demanded. | c. J. Isbister spoke for the New Ha- ven road who hold property on the easter1y side of North Main street. He 1 said that the company did not feel it l necessary to lay a walk there at the 1 present time and were not in a posi- l n m 1 the laying of the walks was compul- l sorry and was told that that is the | way the orders read.
 | Clerk Crowell read a communication l from Anna Tarrant of San Francisco l in regard to her property which is in- l cluded in the asoers. She was in fla ! Vor of a tar or asphalt walk but not i in favor of granolithic as ordered. | The council took recess at 11.30 l 10 consider the objections raised. i When they returned to the council
 chamber the mayor announced that
 the original resolutions with the ex-
 ception of one or two changes were adopted. The Elizabeth Huntington | property on Broadway was dropped
 from the list for the, present. The of North Main street were given an 1 option on tar or asphalt walks. The | City of Norwich Gas and Electric de-
 partment was ordered to read Nor
 Wich Gas and Electric Company. | Carroll Avenue Accepted by City
 The following resolution by which
 the city accepts Carroll avenue, was passed:
 That the deed from Adams P. Car f roll to the city of Norwich, of cer- tain strip of land known as Carroll
 avenue and located on the easterly I side of Broadway, for highway pur- poses, dated Sept. 29, 1916, be and
 the same is hereby accepted by the
 city of Norwich and that said deed be recorded in the Norwich Land Records In regard to the motor vehicle law
 and fire prevention day Mayor Brown
 had the following to communicate tc the council:
 There are two matters of importance to the city and its citizens which ] wish to- mention briefly at this time.
 The Motor Vehicle Law.
 The first is the manner in which the streets of the city% are used by the
 owners and drivers of motor vehicles A number of complaints have been
 made, and with reason, of the careless manner in which automobiles are
 handled particularly in the down town