WIDTH OF STREETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 105, 2 May 1908, Page 8 (Supplement)

WIDTH OF STREETS.

- JA__r_l __________ P____o____ Po___lo-_ 777 " Apparently Grey Lymi occupies a. decidedly peculiar position under the Tegula- - -_'. Tifins; governing the widtli of roads, and "the erection, oi buildings thereto.- At last night's meeting of rate-pay-ers tlie question was discussed, and cer.—tain'interesting facts elicited. Mr Waddinshasn said he understood a ' -.special Act had recently been passed, al- '-- lowing tiie Government to take a. strip - "of 3ft -width on each, side of Bond-street. ~-7 . The __________ said the Board had _>- '"" j___& lor the exemption of Bond-street » irom. the law ___rag it imperative ______ - ■ streets should be net less titan 66ft. -wide, r He regarded the law as an iniquitous one, since there was not a single streein Arch TTm which was 66ft. wide. Bondstreet was the widest. He looked upon it 33 confiscation, pure and simple, as far as Arch Bill was concerned. Any -private person could take exception to ihe erection of any building at a closer lange than Soft, to the middle of the 7 road. He was strongly in favour of Slaving the whole district exempted from ithe Act. Mr Waddinshanx said that he had _ _omer block in Bond-street. If the road •was widened to 66ft, on each side he li-' svoaid not have a scrap of land left At present the road was less than 60ft. Tride. The (__irn__ explained that the Board-had approached the Government, and Bond-street __d been exempted on ■ the one oar_i_c_—that no new building ■was erected closer than 33ft. to the «entre of the road. ~.f^-^t-gjlt.TTig'.aTn- Tha.. mean? that I lave"no land on the Bond-street corner ___** _____ -npon. It. was resolved to -on_m_u_-_ate with the Government, and ask for Axeh Hill's exemption from: the A_t- Also thai the Hon. George Fowlds should be approached, end shown that the enforcement of ■tpe Act meant confiscation in the Arch SSL district. _.