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Show I I mm mm j fjOliSSllEilATlDM . 'j: fransfonHafioii of Bench Lands , hUi City blocks Requires 't Skill and Judgment. "1 -; EXAMPLES A UK AFFORDED .. (IN .SOUTHEAST BENCH : mv Addition Illustrates Seien-; Seien-; f I Hie Division lo Utilize i'il Greatest Area for Lots. i? jitr How to plat :i modern rc;;donoo ad-I. ad-I. : lit ion i-r a problem that has frequently :ji nculcd itself of late in knit Lake 'j'i ':v and has nut always been answered nicccssfnlly. iji It miuht seem io the uninitiated !i' iliat. iriven tlio u intensions or the piece , l.'i vf .'round to be cut up -nto blocks and I; o'is. it would be : comparatively simple :-;; suMtcr to do itto work. Vet there is ,.,! ft.-u uiwalisl'iU'ti-in cnouizh expressed A u (he maimer in which tiie work has 'i!J )ccn 'done. . - In some sections the eontour of tnc f -round is Mieh that it is a rather dil-Men!; dil-Men!; matter to lay out the distriet :u !. of a convenient size without hav 'ifl nit: iiini-h waste "round. Vet in .sueh "f lei-tions a skilled landscape cnirniccr .'li 'an it'len obtain some boautilul results. nd the "park system. as it is some-t some-t :iuos called, is not unknown in Salt 'j i? L-ake t'itv. hi other tracts (o be platted the sur-. sur-. ' .'ace of the "round is of a eomparntivo-t eomparntivo-t !y even nature, lint there are other srohlems present. The shape of the 'i : :ract mav bo sueh that it is difficult :o set it'dividcd up properly without a I lame amount of cround wasted in i J itvcets. for, while streets help the sale E of a tract for residence purposes, the . owner of the tract cannot sell the street?. Naturally, he wishes that the ji! streets mav occupy as little ground :is l possible, consistent with "ivinc con-' con-' & eenient conimunieation between the l? carious parts of the tract. , jjjj Many Considerations. ' Then, loo. the wideawake real estate : !t' man in the present day must see to it 'i lh nt residents op the district may bo ronvenient to ehureh, to school, to gro-. gro-. cerv store and to the business portion , nf 'the citv, uo matter in what part of the proposed tract they may live. And . there' are questions of sewerage, ot garbage gar-bage disposal, of light poles and, many , others to be answered in advance, if u tract is lo be perfectly satisfactory to ,;' the future resident. ;". And unless the real estate dealer has planned a pint that will be thus satis-factory, satis-factory, he will find, in this modern ;ii age, much difficulty in scHim.' his prop-j.ft prop-j.ft erty. For his competitor will have at- ! tempted to show foresight in another il o.MWInn nnA -ftirllior will bp. rmifilc (.0 I. I! point out defocts in his neighbor' plat. !t An examination of the plat of the lor- xil.orv recently added to Salt Lake City, ' including Sugar House and the land to the cast and south of that; bustling Jit-.' Jit-.' tic business conter, shows how one firm ; irf rcaltv dealers has endeavored to make good and sufficient provision iu Un advance for all the necessary considerations. consid-erations. Highland Park plat, shows hat careful attention has been given to all details. , 'j ' Tor Comfortable Homes. Hj This tract is designed to sell in small- sized lots to persons of the class' that If lias already found that region a dosir-j- aldo place in which to build homes, These aro chiefly moderately well-to-do, 1. able to build and to own their own yt liomcs of a substantial, but not proten-; proten-; C- -tious, type. Of course, it is expected If, that there will be some rich persons 5. .who will be attracted by the beautiful 'I location and who will buy sites for ihomcs of the mansion type. And there ! axe many locations in Highland Park . j; where such may be set off to advan-"l advan-"l tagc. At the same time, the size of the '.'A' (tract and the values at which the lots V; ,nrc held cannot but mean that many of the more modest typo of homes will -: ibe erected on the tract. And the lots -nrc of a si'e that will give plenty of ' t (room for such.. " j The tract has a gentle slant up to the t foothills of the AVasatch, but its surfaco ,.r qs comparatively even. It. did not, ' it therefore, present, some of those diffi-Milt diffi-Milt iroblems iu landscape engineering ,c' that have to be solved in other tracts. The streets are nil straight, and nearly ff all at right angles to one another, run-iy run-iy aiing either straight, north and south or Yv straight east and west. Thoy are sixty-'i sixty-'i pix feet wide, which has been - found ;t sufficient for residence districts. ;y The great maiority of the lots in : $ Highland Park front on a street, while ' s the rear touches an alley twelve feet ' wide. There is only ono 3hort street in k 4hc addition that is not at right angles iU with its cross streets. This means that Ihcre is only ono block in which the Kl corners arc not at right angles. Evcry-thing Evcry-thing considered, the rectangular lot is iU the one that wins general favor, ill Ono set of lots in Highland Park ad- diti6n some day will nrovide sites for il handsome residences. These are on Hill-U' Hill-U' erest avenue, facing that thoroughfare. I while from the rear homes there wiU : overlook the inO-acrc citv park along Parley's creek a park which the board of park commissioners is alreadv taking tak-ing steps to beautify. All Hie streets in- Highland Park will be bi Might to city grade, and the owners, own-ers, Kimball & Richards, arc under bond of $7oQ0 to see that this is carried into effect. Cement walks aro being laid on both sides of the streets and California monuments will be placed on every corner. Trees have been purchased pur-chased lo the extent of 7000, and many of these will bo planted this year. Highland Park lots havo been on sale one week, and the demand for them has been such that the owners arc congraru-lating congraru-lating themselves on having evolved a plat that will prove popular, and. therefore, -profitable. There are many new additions on tho east and southeast benches, some of thorn with moro difficult problems to solve than Highland Park; but the manner man-ner in which these havo been met is al-wavs al-wavs interesting to tho man who takes time to study the plat and the ground divided. |
