07/18/1944 Board of Public Works Special Meeting Minutes

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LEONA WHITE - -- 404 NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, SHORTHAND REPORTER ` - - OR 403 EAST BOWMAN STREET.;- - SOUTHBEND. INDIANA - -:. PHONES :4-3141.:8.4407 can -be assessed, i6and- ghat; the :.rights of those adjoining property owners are--wouldnt t': it be absurd to make a law of that kind `in such detail, if with such a law the Board could just say, will ,just go . on and improve this street.. ourselve .x, and we will assess against the property owners as far as we like for what we . think the benefit to them is,. fob, this improved street" 'ls my question cleaT2 Wouldntt it :be absurd to have ;this law and this Ia-ovision, to lling just what property can be assessed, or stating,what kind of pavement shall be put in:, -or what improvements if_ the city could go right on and putt in any kind; it wanted to, and ay; "Now we are going to tax the benef its to you people." IVIR. LEVY: Z am anxious here to get information. Wha t you said,. in our minds, is very clear. I don't know what the ultimate final cost is, but it was far `in excess of the benefits, we have found on the basis of a report by people in the business. Now sometimes ;when you condemn property you will find that by taking a` piece of land you reduce the `value of the private property owners s land, not only by the amount that was taken but in an:_additional sum; then in another instance, you will find by taking the land you may make it back, to the land owner for the piece taken by giving him an adjoining piece, and increasing its value. Just a, bare right -of, -way: may, gave land more value, merely by the fact of its existene . Then you have this case, where .you have a paved right-4 v�ay and you are condemning. a mans s land 'to lay that, right-of-way..