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Show Old Trees Removed on Main Street To Make Way for New Lighting Job The first part of the project being undertaken In which Paro-wan's Paro-wan's Main Street Is to receive a new lighting system through the cooperation of the city and the Utah Highway Department,, was completed last week with the removal of a number of old trees on that street. The highway high-way department workers took the trees out at no cost to the city and city employees hauled In soil to fill the holes. Trees removed were old cotton-woods cotton-woods at the turn of the road at the south end of the street, trees of the same species along the Third Ward Church property and the city park, and locust trees on the east side of Main in front of the Gwen M. Gurr and John S. Dalton, Jr. homes and next to the county courthouse. court-house. Other trees along the street will not be taken out as they will not Interfere with the project, pro-ject, under present plans. It was the recommendation of District Road Engineer John Homer that white birch trees at the Ellis Bentley residence and the row of green ash on the street from 100 (to 400 North be left, as well as the row of pines at the north end of the street. It is possible that it may be necessary to transplant the birch trees at the Bont'ey residence, moving them back inside the property line. Under the project as outlined to us by Mr. Homer, the state Is to pay for the materials in the new lighting system with the city to install the poles, do the wiring, furnish the power and maintain the lights which will extend the length of the street from beyond the turn on the south end to beyond the turn on the north end, and will include the most modern In street lighting light-ing equipment In connection with the lighting light-ing project Parowan City Is planning plan-ning a project to install curb and gutter the full length of the street with that already in place to be torn out ;nd moved back several feet on either side. The contemplated project would widen wid-en the street by at least 12 feet we understand. If this project is undertaken the state highway department will extend the oil surface of the street to its entire width in its project to rebuild that thoroughfare, a program which is being planned plan-ned by that organization. If the widening project Is nn-augurated nn-augurated by the city, it will have to be done as a special improvement im-provement project with the abutting abut-ting property owners to bear the cost of the enUre Job with the exception of the engineering. This part has been promised by the highway department in as far as is possible. In order to do this Parowan City will have to Issue a notice of intent to create a public improvement im-provement .district along the street and then the citizens and business property included in it would have an opportunity to signify their wishes on the project. pro-ject. If they approve, it can get under way, if not it will have to be abandoned, as the law is Interpreted In-terpreted to us. The same also goes for the intended in-tended project reaching from Main Street east to the edge of the city on the Canyon Highway, (Center Street). The State has agreed to surface this street from curb to curb, providing curb and gutter is laid by t'e city the length of the street. Again the state has Indicated assistance to the extent of doing the engineering en-gineering work, but the abuting property owners will have to pay for the entire project of installing instal-ling the curb and gutter. The State has already undertaken under-taken some of the preliminary survey work on the streets mentioned, men-tioned, and will continue Its part of the work under certain conditions. Some of the citizens who arc supporting the main street widening project are doing so under the impression that it would make additional parking available by bringing back 45-degree 45-degree angle parking. This is not so according to Mr. Homer, who states that angle parking will not be restored under any condition. He also states that under parking regulations on streets traversed by a state highway, high-way, angle parking would not increase in-crease the parking spaces, but in some cases would actually decrease de-crease them. He states that this fact has been brought out in conference he has held with city oiticiais. |