New Britain herald., 1930-04-12
Bristol Mews
STATE PLANS NEW
 WATERBURY ROAD

Proposed Highway Would Re-
 duce Mileage to Brass City CITY Z0NING EXPLAINED Planning Commission Calls in Other proposals-c4 Children to Jou
 Methodist Church-Hull is II. $.
 Valedictorian.
 With the assurance from state highway commissioners that new concrete road will be erected from Bristol, starting at the north Of th2 Sessions Foundry Co.,, to the Farm | ington town line, local residents are now looking forward to the con- struction of a second state highway
  is understood that state highway of ficiais have promised that plans will be carried out for the provision of the thoroughfare.
 According to reports, the new road will run from the Brass City to Bristol. It will enter from the south end of the city, cutting through a vast eXpanse of territory on Curtiss lane. It has been said that, with the inception of the new concrete road, nearly seven miles will be clipped from the highway distance between here and Water. bury.
 It is believed that work on the new Pennington avenue highway will be commenced within the next two weeks by the state highway de- partment. Towering hills of rock at the beginning of the proposed highway will be blasted away with dynamite to permit a road of dou. ble width. The present surface is in very poor condition and is tn. reason why a great number of mo. torists choose to journey to Brsto by way of Plainvillc. Only tenn. porary repairs if any, will be made as it is thought that workmen vii soon tear up the old macadamizet covering preparatory to the laying of beds of concrete.
 May Zone City Soon
 It was decided at a meeting o the planning commission held in tn, city court room last night to call il proposals from pair of New Yorl engineering concerns to compet, against the city zoning offer of Nor ris Knowles, Inc, of Pittsburgh, Pa Mayor w. Raymond Crumb, in in troducing the two representatives Q the Pennsylvania firm who wer, present to discuss the proposed sys : tenn, stated that outside bids woult .. be called in so that the knowle authorities would have to "sharper their pencils" to win the contract He stated that, due to the unfor : tunate request of construction firm for building permits to erect com , mercial buildings in Bristol, tn commission would have to act. H stated further that the request fo permission to build commercial structures had aroused public senti ment in favor of zoning. Council
 man William A. Hayes expressed hi
 opinion of the proposed project b
 asserting that the inception of sue |. a system was "a step in the righ ' direction"
 Suggests Nciehborhood Meetings A The representatives of the Pitts Y, burgh firm were Wilfred Jupenla A and Arthur Lowell, the former do . ing the greater part of the explain T ing Mr. Jupcnlaz suggested tha
 in the event that the city decide
 to adopt a zoning ordinance, neigh
 borhood meetings be called. Tn : meetings, he avcrred, would be in
 formal so that any interested per
 son might attend. The principle
 of the plan would be explained 1;
 those present and reasons for it
 adoption would be given. Difficul
 ties, he explained, would be ironc
 out to the satisfaction of all. An
 suggestion which person in at
 tendance would care to make woul
 probably prove to be valuable late
 when alterations to the system wcr
 made before it was definitely adopt
 cd.
 MT. Jupcnlaz declared that tn
 meetings could be held in any pull lie school building, a church hal
 or district center and would be fir
 ishcd within q period of about scy : cn or eight days. He laid cmphas
 on these meetings. saying that eac l and every property owner wh l might be affected by the ordinanc l should be afforded an opportunit l to voice his opinion.
 l Work to be Accomplished l In his explanation of the pro l posed system to the commission, M l Jupenlaz told of the work to | | done by the firm which was award | ed the contract. Assuming that pal | of the work was to be done. by Joe; | engineering concerns, something f l advocated earlier in the meeting. j l stated that the approximate co! l would be s2,500. The labor contrii | uted by local firms would cost in th ; ncighborhood of S1,5O0, he though