01/24/1923 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Board met in regular :session at 7:15 P.M. All members present. Representative of the Chamber of Comeree appeared before the Board and requested that permission be granted to the C4olden `Eagle Inn_on -South Michig%n Street to place an electric sign -over -the sidewalk at entrance to Golden Eagle Inn.' Same refused, a Hearing haden roll of awards of damages anal assessments of bene- fits for the Condemnation of Land for the relocation of Catalpa Avenue and Chapin Street from Bruce'St eet to Calvert' Street, under.Candemnation Resolution No. 65, in the City of South;Bend, Indiana, Upon said hearing Attorn#7-0benehain representing Kovach and Kish appeared with Mr. Joseph Kish, .Jr. ,and filed'a written remonstrance. Attorney Strickland present for petitioners._ The Board, after hearing .all Rar-ties Interested deferred this hearing until 'Wednesday January 31st,.,-1923 at 7*15 P.M. Copy of written, romenstrane-e Filed by'Atto-rnay Obenehain in the above mattesr. BEFORE THE BOARD OF PUBLIC -WORKS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND In the matter of the Relocation of ) Catalpa Avenue.under Condemnation REMONSTRANCE Resolution Number 65. Louis E. Kovash and Joseph Kish Jr. remonstrate against the sward of damages and the assessment of benefits in the above entitled proceedings and for their ground of remonstrance say: FIRST: That on September 5th. 1922s they executed a certain contract for the sale of the West Thirty-fourN)j feet of the Eas:L one hundred and twos (102) feet of lot numbered Six (6) and Eleven (11) in Kerr ble's Addition to the Town of Mylery now a part of the City of South Bend, and that on said day and by virtue of said land contract, the West thirty-four (34) feet of said East one hundred and tw#o (102) feet became and was detached and severed from the remainder of said One hundred and two (102) feet of said lots; that said purchases Fabian Kalos$ar and Rosa Kalosaar, were under and by virtue of said contract of purchase in actual possession of said West Thirty-four ( 4) feet from and after said September 5th.1 1922; that the East Sixty-eight (6m. 8� feet of said One hundred and two (102) feet of said lot Six and eleven (11) are or will be under this condemnation proceeding, destroyed for residential purposes; that the frontage of said Sixty-eight (68) feetremaining on Calvert Street after said condemnation is made effectual will be fourteen (14) feet; that the effeet.of such condemnation will be to give these remonstrance a long frontage for improvement assessments without any adequate land for improvements and developement; that the cost of curb_, walk, grade, sewer and pavement will far exceed the value of the remainder of said Sixty-eight (68) feet even after such improvements are put in. SECOND: That the award of damages as to the,land owned by these Parties in lots Numbered Six (6) and Eleven (11) in said Addition is too small; that the assessment of benefits as to the land owned by these remonstrants in lots Numbered Six (6) and Eleven (11) is toes large. FILED JAN. 241,1923. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS BY L. B. SLAUGHTER President, L OUIS E. K.OVACH AND JOSEPH KISH, Jr. BY JONES, MONTGOMERY & OBENCHAIN Attys. Hearing had on roll of awards of damages and assessments of benefits for the Vacation of the alley lying west of Lots 1.8 and 9 Kemble's Addition. Also: The vacation of a part of Chapin Street and Catalpa Avenue from Bruce Street to CatNAP , Straert,under Vacation Resolution No. 68. In the City of South Bend, Indiana. In the above matter Joseph Kish. Jr. and Attorney Obenchain present but no written remonstrance filed. The Board after hearing all interested parties deferred the hearing on this roll until Wednesday January 31st., 1923 at. &;15 P.M. -