The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-22
O Q Q RcpOrt of COmmittec.

the street railway and the public at l large.
 Report of Committee.
 The full report of the committee, I of which Mrs. J. M. Hankins is chair
 man, and William L. White, Horace c. Wilkinson. Von l.. Thompson and | Albert l.. Smith are members. Is a follows:
 l. That the city commission of l Birmingham and the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company | have entered into a written agree ment, the substance of which insofar | as 1t affects the citizens of Avondale. East Lake, Woodlawn and the pub | lie generally, who travel First ave nue from Avondale to East Lake, the 1 Birmingham Railway Light and Power company have agreed to and
 will park First ayenVp rom FJ-ty eighth to Fifty third street and from | Fifty-seventh to Eighty-fifth street. "2. Tn" on further consdera-
 ton after your committee confs 'ed with the City Commission, the Bir-
 mingham Railway, Light and Power company. as we understand it. have refused to recede from or change or modify in any way its agreement In regard to parking this street, and
 use to rave any part (, it except | from Forty first to Forty y-eighth I street and from Fifty-third to Fifty six and Eightieth to Eighty third | street.
 "5. In view of the agreement of
 the city commission with the Bir-
 mingham Railway, Light and Power company. eff this agreement is car
 ried into effecD there will be in the center of First avenue from For ty-eighth to Fifty third street, strip of land in the center of Ffst
 avenue 21 1-2 feet wide and from | Figty-seventh to Eightieth street a strip 23 feet wide on which nothing | wiL be allowed but tracks and cars | of the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company, and this strip will be so elevated that no vehicle
 can travel on it except at the inter section of the streets; that 1t will be difficult to step from the car to the ground and there will and can be no other paving or street improve ment except at the expense of the abutting property owners, along | First avenue, and the parking of this strip will necessitate the pres ent pavement on both sides of the avenue to be extended to the curb | line, and the cost of this extensiCH
 will be charged to the abuttng prop
 erty owners, and the cost conserva- | lively estimated is not less than S125 for every 50-foot lot paved on | First avenue.
 Relieve Parking Bad Move.
 A. Your committee is of the opln-
 ion and belief that the parking of | First avenue in such a way will be detrimental to the interest of the
 public; that it will cause a conges- l tion of traffic on a now already | heavily travelled thoroughfare; that the fire department will be greatly | hampered in going to fires; that in
 all probability insurance rates will | be increased on account of such con
 diticns.
 "5. Your committee is further of | the opinion that First avenue should be paved from Avoudale to the east | ern corporate limits of Birmingham
 and that nothing less than this would 1 satisfy the public or be proper and | I fight to a long suffering community:
 and, that if the Birmingham Rail- | way, Light and Power company | should have that part of First ave | nue occupied by their track, and the 1 City of Birmingham and the county will jointly bear the cost of eXt.ud-
 ing the present pavement along First | avenue but to the curb line.
 Committed Recomm "Theremore, the comittee makes | the following recommendations:
 "1. No parking of First avenue | undedr any circumstances.
 70. That First avenue be paved l from F'orty-first to Eighty-fifth
 street. and that this cost be borse
 by the city commission, Birmingham
 Railway, Light and Power company
 and the public at large.
 "9. That nothing less than the
 paving of the entire street as other sections of the streets of the City
 of Birminghan> will satisfy the pub | lie; and that. if this can not te eff
 fected by mutual consent of all par | ties, then the citizens of this com
 munity and the public at large shall | pledge themselves to exhaust every l legal means to accomplish the same.
 Therefore, the committee calls a
 meeting of the citizens of Avondale, | WCodlawn and East Lake and the
 public at large, as well as repre-
 sentatives of the city mission,
 county commissioners and the Bir-
 mingham Railway, Light and Power
 company to meet in public assem-
 bly, in the city hall in Woodlawn on | Monday night, July 23. at s o'clock, Ito take such action and adopt such
 means as will accomplish the desir- 1 ed end.