City of Seattle Records

Mr. President:

Your Committee on Ordinance to whom was referred a petition for the vacation of Lake Avenue

Beg leave to respectfully report adversely on said petition

A Clapue 3-6-93

J. F. Brewer Chairman L. Miller Committee

To the Honorable City Council of the City of Seattle:

The undersigned, being the owners of all the property abutting on Lake Avenue, between John Street and Mercer Street, hereby petition and pray your Honorable Body to vacate that portion of Lake Avenue between John Street and Mercer Street.

The reason for said vacation is that said street does not conform to the other streets in said vicinity but runs diagonally across the same, and is of no practical benefit or utility to the City.

And your petitioners will ever pray.

NAMES. Lot Block Addition

Olaf P. Norgren and Ida Norgren 4 65 Home R.D. Parker & Lizzie Parker 5&6 11 " H.J. Pearmine & Pauline Pearmine 7 65 Home Frederick Prosch & Helen M. Prosch (on 7&8 61 Park condition that street when vacated becomes the property of abutting land owners) R.D. Parker & Lizzie M. Parker 11&12 66 Denny's Park Mrs S K Murdock 2-3 61 Denny's Park W. Dankel Margaret Dankel 7 57 " " Douglass Allmond (wishes his name taken off)4-5-6 61 " " Annie C. Haller by Theo. W. Haller]] atty in fact 1,2 [57] " " Granville O. Haller by Theo. W. Haller]] atty in fact 3,4 57 " " Henrietta M Haller by Theo. W. Haller]] atty in fact 5 [57] " " D.T. Denny all fractional lots in said all Blocks 65 Louisa Denny block 72-73-74- DT Denny Home addition

To the Honorable the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle Gentlemen!-- Whereas, There was presented to your honorable body on Jan. 24th 1893, a petition praying that Lake Avenue be vacated from John Street to Mercer Street, which petition alleges as a reason for said vacation that Lake Avenue was diagonally to the streets already laid out in that district. Now, Therefore, we, the undersigned owners of property abutting on and adjacent to Lake Avenue, do hereby emphatically protest against the vacation of said Avenue, for the following reasons:-- 1.-- The avenue running as it does diagonally from the Bay to the Lake Union, instead of being a detriment, is in our opinion, a great public convenience as it affords the only direct route from the Bay to the Lake (as will be more readily seen by reference to the map of the City) and will, when graded, establish one of the finest drives in Seattle, The Avenue being eighty feet wide, of comparatively easy grade, and

affording connections with the Lake Union Boulevard. 2.--Lake Avenue is already graded from the Bay to Depot Street, a distance of five blocks, and cannot be closed without working a detriment to the property of those citizens who have already paid grade taxes with the understanding that the street would be further extended according to the plats dedicating it to the City for street purposes. 3.--That the land comprising said Avenue was dedicated to the public for street purposes only, and we protest against the City vacating the land for the benefit of a few abutting property owners, who comprise a very small fraction of the public, and who have fathered the aforementioned petition simply for their own selfish ends, and not from any regard for the public welfare.

NAME, Lot. Block Harry Daniels 1 for 2 61 Peter Nehrbass 10 57 J.A. Gaesham Fraction 3-4 61 Gertrude M. Peterson 12 58 William Chisholm 11 60

Seattle, Wash. May 19th 1891.

To the Honorable Mayor, House of Delegates and Board of Aldermen, of the City of Seattle.

We, your undersigned petitioners, citizens and taxpayers of said City of Seattle, residing on the East and North shores of Lake Union in said City, respectfully represent as follows, to-wit:

That the aforementioned districts are being rapidly improved and settled, and that as yet there have been no streets opened except by private parties: that the main streets and avenues of travel along and around the East shore of said Lake Union and to Latona and Brooklyn and the adjacent precincts are Lake Avenue, running through Doyle's, Hilton's and Frances' Additions, Yellow and Green Streets in Green's and the Denny-Fuhrman Additions: that between the North end of Lake Avenue and said Yellow Street there are two small strips of land owned by Samuel B. Carr and W. Perry Smith, respectively, neither of whom have platted their said lands or dedictated to the public for its use any of said lands as streets, but, to the contrary, have refused and still refuse to open or allow to be opened a street or streets across said lands. That it is necessary for our use and for the use of the public generally that the street be opened across said lands between the aforementioned points.

Wherefore, your petitioners pray that your Honorable Body order a strip of land, not less than (60) sixty feet in width, condemned for the use and purposes of a public street across said pieces or parcels of land, owned by the said Samuel B. Carr and W. Perry Smith, and that said street be located parallel to and including the line of The Rainier Power and Railway Company's Right of Way or roadbed as the same is now located, and graded across the said tracts aforesaid, and your petitioners will every pray.