Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-27
PROPOSE TO LAY ROAD ONLY ON
 EASTERLY SIDE OF LAFAYETTE STREET

It developed at the special meeting of the court of eonmen council held, Mon day evening in the council chamber that the $S,000 voted for the improvement of the roadway on Sachem and Lafayette streets, from Yantic street to Williams street, is not sufficient to cover the pro ject for the full width of the street. Street Commissioner George E. Fellows said the intention now is to lay the new road from the curb on the easterly side of Lafayette street to the easterly rail 1 of the trolley tracks. By following out this plan MT. Fellows said he believes 1 the new roadway can be carried very nearly to Williams. street.
 1 The special meeting of the council was called for the purpose of hold!nb four hearings, one on the proposed ac- ceptance of Fowler avenue as a public highway, one on the establishing of a grade on Prospect street, and the other
 two on the proposed grades and new sidewalks for Lafayette street
 The meeting was called to order at o'clock by His Honor, Mayor Herbert NJ Lerou. The returns of publication of the notice e 1'.c hearings
 were read by City Clerk Weston l the first taken up. No one present. de sired to be heard either pro or con and the hearing was declared closed. The second hearing was that concern 1 ing the establishment of grade on til easterly side of Lafayette street. No 1 one desired to be heard on this matter and the hearing was closed.
 l The neR hearing taken up was the l one on the proposed sidewalks for the easterty side of Lafayette street. AL i though several of the property holders
 
 at the meeting only enc spoke in regal 1 to the proposed order for the new walks. Opposes Sidewalk Order l William H. Yeomans, one of the prop l erty holders, spoke in opposition to the 1 new sidewalk order, saying that he felt 1 the present walks should not be relaid l if the new road is to be only partly laid and if the property holders on the other l side of the street are not required tC build walks.
 1 MT. Yeofnans asked if the new road way is to be laid the entire width of the street Commissioner Fellows, in ans l Wer to the question, said that it is the l intention to lay the road from the east l erly side of the street to the easterly there is not enough money to carry the new road from curb to curb. By laying it from the easterIy side of the stree to the aesterly rail of the trolley tracks
 he felt that the new road can be carried
 very nearly to Williams street.
 MT Yeomans said that if it is a fac
 that new curbs and walks are to be re auired on the easterIy side of the stree and none are to be required on the west erly side of the street he is opposed t tany change. He asked why the walk are to be ordered only on one side o
 l the street.
 Street Commissioner Fellows said h
 didn't know why the walks were ordere only on one side of the street If tn new road is to be laid only to the east : erly side of the street there is no reaso = for new walks on the westerly side. 9 Mir Yeomans said he is opposed to tn l order seeing that one side is picked ou D and the other side let out
 Mayor Lerou said that it was not tn
 desire of the present administration t
 take~ ~up the work. It is the work of