Show SPECIAL TAXES FOR SIDEWALKS deseret news REFERRING to your editorial on more special taxes in last evenings issue cissne and in view of the fact that many taxpayers ars likely to oppose paving in the outskirts of the city would it not be well to pu publish blish specific instructions to your numerous readers how to proceed legally against the construction of those sidewalks irn in our establishment for instance we differ as ai to whether remonstrance would le be proper now or must we wait until the city recorder should publish hw hig notice bof intention to pave also as to what proportion Kro portion T I 1 tion of the property owners may deap defeat uch such special tax these and similar points being understood there is little doubt but many property owners will oppose op pose such burdensome taxation in the outskirts skirts of the i city ftp alf JS TAXPAYER these theae questions have hav been a k e admy many taxpayer sho do not noca ani abe to be saddled addled with the expense of paying for cement sidewalks in parts of the city where there is little or no use for them K the answer is the law provides that when the city proposes to lay sidewalks in any given district if the owners of one half in value of the property to be effected object the work cannot be bedone done but buethe the objection must be made by written protest to the city council and signed by the owners objecting jec ting and filed with the city recorder by the time fixed in a notice to be given in a newspaper published in the city we understand the intention of the council is at present to establish by ordinance the districts and then proceed to construct the sidewalks as opportunity port unity offers and circumstances warrant when the districts are established due notice will be given of the intention of the council to build the sidewalks in any given district and the taxpayers in that district will then have twenty days day a in which to decide whether they want the sidewalks or not and in which to me file their objections it if they have any these notices may not be published in the advertising columns of the DESERET NEWS as it is not always the desire of the council to reach the people who are to be affected by the assessment of a special tax but we will endeavor to let our readers know when any attempt to is made to extend works that are needless or merely projected to find labor for political tools at present the only notice of the kind out is for sidewalks on west temple street both sides from south temple to second south street I 1 |