Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-12-05
PARK-FACTORY
SITE QUESTION
UP IN COUNCIL
Attorney Holds City Has
Legal Right to Regulate
Building.
ZONE BODY DODGEs

The city council will have before it at
its regular meeting tonight ruling of
City Attorney Thomas D. Stevenson that
the council has a legal right to- pass an
ordinance prohibiting the establishment
of manufacturing buildings in any block
within five hundred feet of park prop
erty, and report that the city plan COM
mission does not care TO make a recon-
mendation as to whether the Victor Bear
ings Company should be permitted to
build a factory at Massachusetts, avenue
and Steele street, near Spades Park.
Residents of Spades Park neighbOrhood,
within 500 feet Of whose homes the pro-
posed factory is being erected, appealed
70 the council TO pass an ordinance pro-
hibiting such location anywhere in the
city. The council held a special meeting
last Monday night to discuss the ordi-
nance. Property owners and stockhold-
ers and officials of the bearings COM
pany argued the proposition and the
council decided TO refer the matter to
the city legal department and the plan
commission. Councilman Gustav G.
Schmidt, the cOuncilmanic member of
the plan commission, promised to have
2, recommendation from the commission
to lay before the regular meeting Of the
council.
SAFEST TO STEER
CLEAR OF RULING.
Edward B. Raub. president of the
commission, said he has advised Mr..
Schmidt that it would be the safest thing
for the plan commission to steer clear Of
a ruling on the question.
Personally my opinion on this matter
is that until the city plan commission has
had survey made by coming experts IT
would be very dangerous for it TO take
any action whatver uron coming" said
Mr.. Raub. I'VE might rule that the fac
tory could not be located at Massachus-
etts and Steele Avenues, and then in a
year or so, when our coming system has
been worked out, find that we would
have TO reverse ourselves
I've are going to have the coming prob
lem studied and worked out by the big
gest coming experts in the country, to-
gether with the citizens Of indianapolis
so that there may be no question Of the
wisdom and fairness OF our final decis-
ions Until that Is done 1 personally do
not feel we should take any action along
this line
An ordinance appropriating 100000 to
the board Of public works with which TO
pay water and electric current bills, will
be introduced. The city win owe the
Indianapolis Water Company S55,00O and
the Merchants Heat and Light Company
$4,000 by Jan. I. Ordinarily these bills
would be permitted to 20 over for pay
ment the next year, but City Controller
Robert H. Bryson desire 10 clean up as
many OF the present dministraticns
bills as possible before it goes out of
Office Jan. 2.
EXPECT NO ACTION on
BUILDING ORDINANCE.
No action upon the ordinance increas-
ing the building heisht limit in Monu-
ment place Is expected. The measure was
introduced tyTo weeks ago.
Four ordinances TO- annexation of mar
row strips OF territory at the edge OF
the city along West Tenth street, Ken
lucky avenue. Prospect street and Eng
lish avenue, will be reported out Of the
public works committee, DR.. Sumner A.
Furniss, chairman, said. These strips
were disannexed some time ago TO per-
NIT the streets to be paved at county
expense.