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Show PROPERTY HERS OISCUSSJEJSURES Meeting Is Held at Commercial Commer-cial Club to Review Senate Bills.. AMENDMENTS ARE MADE Plan Is to Place Control of Improvements in Hands of Persons Affected. Willi two slight nmcuduiunls of a technical character, son'atc bill 3N"o. 92, the proposcil new public improvements law now peudinjj iu the legislature, received re-ceived the unanimous support, uud indorsement in-dorsement of a majority of properly owners, who assembled nt tbo Commercial Commer-cial club last night; to discuss the merits mer-its of tlio measure. Tbo meeting wa.s held under tho auspices of tbo Commer. cial club commiUoe on parks and public improvements, which prepared the bill. Among ofclior new methods of regulation, regula-tion, tho bill looks toward the sUuui-nrdizatinn sUuui-nrdizatinn of street improvements, and plu ccs the coutrol of proposed improvements improve-ments iu f ho bauds .of a majority of property owuera desiring a rcspoclivc improyemcut. A. II. Parsons acted as chairman of tbo meeting, with W. H. F-ollnnd as secretary. The urposcs of the 'bill were explained by George M. Cannon, and its legal phases wore el forth by Aarou Alycrs, assistant city attorney. Sjjeecbcs favoriug tbo measure were made bv 2v, V. .(oneK, Lafavotto Tlan-chclt, Tlan-chclt, 13. Asbton, Fl. .1. Foulgcr, Addison Cain, F. S. Fernstrom and others, while it was opposed by C. E. Collins, George Ash, Contractor Y. T Strange, John Keddingtou and other?, who hold that some modifications! should' bo inturjectcd. Bills Are Advocated. Mr. Collins advocatod aeuato bills Nos. 10-.1 and 105, .providing primarily for an increase of 5 mills iu the authorized au-thorized tax levy for street improvement improve-ment purposes. This would bring tbo total levy to 10 mills. Coutnietor Strange supported Mr. Collins and also favored the method of payiug streets by zones. "Mr. Myers explained that t lie zone sygtcm bad been dulv considered aud found impracticable. Mr. Strange also suggested that specification of typos of pavement bo eliminated. His motion mo-tion to that effect was lost. Two amendments offered by X. G Plall were carried, providing that notice no-tice of intention for paviug work be mailed direct io proporty ownora affected, af-fected, and further providing; that bonds issued for improvements tall due oil a 'basis of one-tenth- of the total cost iu one year. Under the proposed law as indorsed at last night's meeting, tcu years will be allowed in which to pay for all special spe-cial improvements, instead of only five years, us is the case with certain improvements im-provements now. Majority to Control. The bill also places control in the bands of a majority of property owners own-ers affected by a respective improvement, improve-ment, so that 5J per cent of the property prop-erty owners affected may defeat a proposed pro-posed improvement , iustead of a two-thirds two-thirds vote as under present law. The "bill provides for the designation of improvement districts so defined as to moot, the needs or desires of the property owners, and provides for the payment of 8 por cent on delinquent payments only. At present S per cent must bo paid on all deferred payments. Tt further provides that tbo cost to the property owner of engineering, inspection, in-spection, publication and levying in improvement cases shall not exceed 3 por cent of the contract price, all cost above that io be paid out of the general gen-eral fund. Under the proposed law. the cost of impi-oving street intersections and resurfacing re-surfacing them shall be paid by abutting abut-ting property owners, enabling improvements im-provements to bo carried out that are not now possible in, many cases because of the city's lack of funds. |