Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-10 | Page 3 | Sidewalk Privilege Request Considered

SIDEWAlK PRIVIlEGE REQUEST CONSIDERED I Governor Asks City Commis ConlIn Commission is' is sion to Grant Room for Bank Portals i fter After giving both sides a 3 hearing In Inthe Inthe inthe the matter the city t yesterday yesterday yes yes- es morning took under advisement ad the application of ot otHIe HIe Farmers Stock Stoel Growers h bank for permission to extend their portals port ov ott O t three and one half Ce feet t on the sidewalk In Main street just below First South I The bank first asked the tho building in inSpector inspector in- in for fOI a permit and he ho refused In-I In to lo grant it The bank banh then applied to th the city commission for permission to use I sidewalk w le space ce property opert owners Y ner along lalO street immediately nl d a a. protest prote t. t I IThe The governor and others interested In the bank hank appeared before the commission commission com corn mission and urged that tho the privilege be granted It was explained that permIssion permission permission sion had been granted in the past to banking bonking institutions to use sidewalk space and the plans of oC the new nen bank b are such that unless the ile privilege e is Js given thc they would have ha to be materially al altered al- al George T. T Odell declared that SO 80 per percent percent percent cent of oC the banks In the city had been granted ranted special privilege of ot extending their buildings out upon tho the sidewalk I space and he could see no reason wh why th the tho same privilege should hould not be ue granted In this case I Carl Call D. D Lollin protested strenuously I against the privilege being granted He lie declared that when he built his new I I building he might ht come In and ask for I permission to extend It three and a half I feet further out Into the sidewalk than the bank and he didn't think it was ivas fair to let anyone encroach upon the sidewalk at al all Mr Ir also Informed Informed in informed In- In formed the commission that if the permission permission permission per per- peri i mission asked were granted the property prop prop- I elt erty owners on the street would carr carry the case Into court