Tacoma Property Owners Fight Street Improvements
Citizens mount a second protest against expensive city upgrades to E Street, but the council remains unmoved.
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Property owners were up and doing this afternoon. They appeared in a body before the streets and roads committee of the city council, which met this afternoon in the city hall, and protested loud and long against the improvement of E Street from the junction of Tacoma Avenue to South Nineteenth Street. About 50 of them appeared. Attorney Lueders addressed the committee and said the people were opposed to the improvement because the street was not used enough as a public thoroughfare to warrant such an expensive improvement. The committee did not take a favorable view of the remonstrance and will so report to the council. Two months ago, the same property owners appeared before the committee and fought a similar petition, which Mr. Sprabule had submitted to the council.
“They protested loud and long against the improvement of E Street.”
Local pushback against infrastructure projects and street assessments is a recurring theme in Tacoma’s growth. Today, this friction persists as residents debate the costs and utility of major municipal construction in established neighborhoods.
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