WIDTH OF STREETS.

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

WIDTH OF STREETS.

.ARCH HILL'S PECULIAR POSmON. Apparently Grey Lynn-occupies a dcci- — _ position under the Tegular lions the width" of roads, and the erection of buildings adjacent there- — - to. At last night's meeting of ratepay- — ers -the question was discussed, and cer> __T_ t2_-a~_n_-___sting facts elicited. Mx'Waddingha-n said he "understood a special Act bad recently been passed, allowing the Government to take a strip of 3ft width on each side of Bondrstreet. ; .The Chairman said_the Board had ap- " plied for the exemption of Bond-street from the law making it imperative thai streets should be not less than 66ft. wide. He regarded the law as an iniquitous one, since there was not a single street in Arch HiTI which -wa«_66ft. wide. Bondstreet was the widest. ■ He looked upon it as confiscation, pure and simple, as liar as Arch Hill was concerned. Any jirivate person could take exception to the erection of any building at a dosef range than 33ft. to the middle of the road. He was strongly in favour of having the whole district exempted from the Act. Mr Waddingham said that he had a corner block in Bond-street. Ii the road was widened to 66ft. on each side lie iwonld not have a, scrap of land left. At present the road was less than 60ft. wide. The C__r__a explained that the Board had approached the Government, end Bond-street had been exempted on the one condition—that no new building was erected closer than 33ft. to the centre oi the road. Mr Waddingham: ___ means, thai I iave no land on the Bond-street cornel to build upon. It was resolved io communicate with the Government, and ask for Arch Hill's exemption from the Act. Also that the I Hon. George Fowlds should be approach- j ed, and shown that the enforcement of the Act meant confiscation in the Arch JEHU d-strici, j