Property Owners Between

Center and Fourth North Streets on Broadway Get Busy.

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DATE OF HEARING SET FOR AUGUST 13

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Allege That Action Taken by City Council Was Illegal. — Hindrance to Business Also Alleged.

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The curtain has not been rung down upon the imbroglio caused by the contemplated improvement on Broadway between Fifth South and Fifth North streets. It will be remembered that at a recent meeting of the city council the boulevarding of Broadway within this area was ordered as well as the boulevarding of a center zone of twenty feet wide down the center of the street.

Ask Temporary Injunction.

Judge A. B. Gislason of Marshall will be asked to grant a temporary restraining order. The application will be heard August 13, at 2 o’clock at Marshall. It is made by ten property owners owning property between Center and Fourth North streets. The remainder of the area, in which the improvement is contemplated, is not dealt with.

Bids on August 14.

Bids for the construction work of the improvement have been called for by the city to be opened on the evening of August 14. Prior to the World war property owners upon Broadway agitated in favor of the boulevarding of the street down the center, but this world calamity caused plans to be laid aside for a time. This spring a petition was circulated asking that the improvement be made and it is understood that in excess of fifty per cent of the property owners, affected by the improvement, signed. The petition was referred to the Board of Public works and this body in turn recommended that the improvement be made. The city council, at a recent meeting, rejected the recommendations of the Board of Public works, but at the same meeting reconsidered and in turn approved the action of the board and ordered the city engineer to prepare plans and specifications. Later these plans and specifications were adopted and bids called for. At the later meeting a petition for the paving of Broadway from Center to Fourth North streets for a width of fifty-six feet was rejected. This would necessitate the widening of the present boulevard twelve feet. Petitioners for a temporary restraining order, it is said, allege the action taken by the city is illegal. It is also alleged the center boulevard on Broadway in these four blocks will be a hindrance to traffic and business. There is considerable interest manifest over the improvement on Broadway. Property owners affected are just as emphatic in their arguments favoring it as others are in their sentiments that it is not desirable. The outcome is awaited with considerable interest.

Brown County Journal,

Aug. 9, 1925

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