Report on a Park System for Council Bluffs, Iowa (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Report on a Park System for Council Bluffs, IowaThere is temptation, in closing this report on the park system of Council Bluffs, to speak of one or two other mat ters that are closely germane.Broadway will become more and more distinctly a traffic highway. While it is fitting, even necessary, to develop it as attractively as possible, I think that all the special emphasis of a park approach should be put on Eighth avenue, with its better promise, and on the levee drive to the north.The proposed purchase, by public subscription, of the triangle at Main and Pearl streets has of course my sympathy. It is interesting to note how this improvement would add to the importance and dignity of the suggested Worth street ap proach to Fairmount Park, especially if the corner of Worth and Main be rounded. From Broadway and Pearl street, one would pass, in quick succession, Bayliss Park, the improved triangle, and the parked entrance into Worth street - a fitting introduction to the park.Should the City Council place the street trees of the city in charge of the Park Commission, as it proposed doing at the time of my visit, action should be taken that will give to the Commission a right to levy on the abutting property the cost of street tree work - whether planting, removing or trim ming. This is a power very commonly, and ju'stly, given when the burden of street tree care is placed upon Park Commis sions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.