Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-04-28 | Page 10 | Home Owners Pay Attention to Landscaping

Owners Home Pay Attention to Landscaping S I. I of or of Salt Lake Lace are are paying greater attention to landscape landscape land land- gardening this season ac- ac cording t to E. E M M. Ashton of f the Jenkins Ashton-Jenkins Re Real 1 Estate com corn p pany a ny Many y homes in the to class have be been bean n sold in the city this season and in practically practically every instance purchasers ers of the properties have gi given give considerable thought and attention attention atten atten- I tion to means of beautifying and setting off the properties he said Ev Evergreens ar are most popular pop pop popular ular among trees although shade trees of various varieties particularly particularly particularly hardwoods are finding consider oje favor Flowers and shrubbery also are being carefully selected This growing tendency toward home beautification is not confined confined con con- fined to persons who have re recently recently recently re- re acquired new homes Mr Ashton r reports ports Nurseries and florists have experienced experienced ex ex- an unusually s heavy demand for bulbs b rose bushes shrubs s and other forms of greenery the b benefits of oC such improvements improve improve- meats ments In dollars rs ls and cents and bill tle he property own owners rs in In such areas But Jut leaving remnants leaving remnants between an an Improved in street and property that would would abut on the new thoroughfare operates s to reduce the amount mount amount the the- city can collect in the form orm of such special benefit assessments assessments assess assess- ments from neighboring pr property perty A tract of land separated only a afew afew few lew feet from Crom a widened street cannot cannot cannot can can- not bo IX assessed as heavily for bene- bene fits its as if it it had frontage on the Improved street and the remnant that hat causes causes' causes alI all this trouble usually as decided d b by the Illinois supreme court cannot be bo assessed at all CITY TAKES LAND Now under del the power powel- of excess condemnation a city takes whatever whatever whatever what what- ever lan land land- it can show is necessary to o use uso to provide a proper setting for or a public improvement including such remnants Then the city re rearranges rearranges rearranges re- re arranges such uch ground round in ina a way that vill best enhance the Improvement puts on the area whatever tons lons as to the character and and cost of future structures structure which will best test harmonize with the improvement or carry cal out its purpose and resells re re- re resells resells sells the land When such proceedIngs proceedIng's proceedings proceed- proceed Ings Ing's are carefully worked out such transactions show a profit as the theand theland theland land and is bought at the market mal price before beCore the time improvement ement is made and sold at the market price brought about by the improvement The extension cx- cx tension ot ot- this practice should be beof beof beof of interest to property owners throughout hout a cil city as all taxpayers foot oot the bill for the difference be between between between be- be tween the cost of public improvements improve improve- ments meats and what the city can collect collect col col- coi- coi lect in benefit assessments in the improved area No one should ob object ob- ob sect if the city by engaging ens in the thereal thereal real estate state business temporarily can control the setting of oC its Us boulevards and help defray their cos co cost t in excess of or what the ordinary benefit assessments assessments assess assess- ments meats will bring in is one of the thirteen states that has authorized excess condemnation An amendment to the California constitution passed at the time elections last November permits per per- nuts mils a city or county to condemn land within feet of the boundaries boundaries boun boun- daries dailes of the proposed improvement and after the completion of the thc improvement im im- im- im provement to convey any such real I estate thus acquired and not necessary necessary with sary for the improvement resen reservations concerning the tho future use and occupation of such real estate as to protect such public works and improvements and their environs and to preserve the view yiew appearance light air all and usefulness of such public works orlis S The Time other oilier states that grant rant the the power of excess condemnation arc are Massachusetts Ohio Rhode de Island Wisconsin New York Mi Michigan dugan Virginia Illinois New Jersey Jerse- Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut Con Con- and andlar Maryland lar land ONLY SOLUTION Not ot all of the states that have hac so amended their constitutions have made it mandatory upon a city to to impose building restrictions upon such excess in reselling rescUing this is the only thorough way of or handling this problem But Dut it should be pointed out that In Illinois and nd other states that cities taking land under eminent domain secure only the right to use the land for a specific purpose Under the existing procedure in these states if the use is abandoned then the time property reverts to the original owner or 01 owners or their heirs s. Thus the city does not ac acquire acquire acquire ac- ac quire title but only an easement to the ground The National Association Association Association tion of Real Estate Boards in urging urging ing lag that other states grant the power powel of excess condemnation to their cities advocates the passing of full title when land is taken under under un un- der dec eminent domain I believe that this practice would aid in iii a more orderly development of cities an and that if a city pa pays s 's full value for property for a certain public use and later finds it is no flo longer needed needed needed need need- ed for Cor that purpose that the city should be permitted to change the use of such land or sell it Beautiful cities do not just happen happen hap hap- pen They are achieved ed as the re result result re- re sult suit of oC careful planning The beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- that that stretch bEyond the streets of of Paris ha have ye made It it one of the loveliest cities clUes in the world And the beauty of Paris was wasa a achieved through excess tion