Your attention is called to the constant interest of the 
Commission in completing this portion of the ornamentation of 
this central part of Norfolk, and the continued crying necessity 
for such permanent improvements as will necessitate no further 
expense. This sect:on from Botetourt Street Bridge up to Monti- 
cello Avenue is an improvement that must be taken as a whole, 
even though sections of it are completed at a time, so that when 
finally completed, it may be a harmonious whole. The rapid 
decay of the retaining walls from Botetourt to Dunmore, from 
Dunmore to Yarmouth, and from Yarmouth around Lee Park to 
Duke, and the unfinished retaining wall from the foot of Fairfax 
Avenue to Duke Street, will shortly prove not only a loss to both 
property holders and to the city, but also become a menace to 
health and life. Judiciously expended, sixty thousand dollars 
will make such improvements as will obviate further expendi- 
tures for such sea wall, and enable the filling of low places, and 
the dredging out of Smith’s Creek, so that there may be a depth 
of water at all stages of the tides, to go on slowly and without 
great expense, until the same shall have been completed, and add- 
ing estimated taxable property values to the city of not less than 
two hundred and fifty to three hundred thousand dollars, with 
an annual tax revenue at the present rate of about three thou- 
sand dollars, to say nothing of large added property expenditures 
that would normally come from the completion of this much- 
desired improvement. 
There is a steady request upon the part of property owners 
along Jackson Park for the proper treatment of that section 
lying between Brambleton Avenue and Falkland Street, and the 
plans that have been drawn fully provide for an advantageous 
treatment of these low lying lands, providing a boulevard and 
parkway one hundred feet wide, a proper concrete drain of such 
dimensions as will fully provide for the drainage of the large 
area naturally draining to this portion of Newton’s Creek. 
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