The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-29
EvAD1Ne THE ORDINANCE.
How New Frame Houses Are Some
times Built Within the Fire Limits.

How New Frame Houses Are Some
times Built Within the Fire Limits.
/ At 1919 York street there is now going
/ on what appears TO be an evasion Of the
/ city fire and building ordinances.
The building, which, up TO the present
/ time, has occupied these premises, was "a
/ one-story frame house, but it seems a
/ change was desired, and under the or
| dinance which allows an owner of prop
/ erJy within the fire limits 10 add a story
/ to frame house. provided a tin roof is
/ placed on it and no more space is taken
! up, the desired changes are being made
/ An Investigation would seem to show
/ that the changes, however, 90 further
f imam the ordinance COutemplateS. II
| looks very much as if the shell
OF the old house is being used
I behind which TO construct the new
/ building The rafters of the new
building and the beams which are to sup
port 1t are being laid from the ground up,
aud all that remains of the old building is
the frame work fronting on York street
ana few Of the rafters which formerly
/ held up the roof
The rafters will have to be thrown
away, and when the building is completed
the purpose is in all probability, 10 re-
move the front portion of the frame of
the old house, as it would not answer for
| the covering for the new one Thus
phoenix like new frame building will
arise from the debris of the old one and
1t will be hard to tell Just where the old
one goes out of existence and the new one
comes into it,
This seems to be on close inspection a clear
case OF evasion of the building ordinances
as II appears the front portion of the old
house Is being used as S ,reen behind
which N hnild bo IL
TO MIND an evasion of the law which took
place year or two ago, and which was
commented on at the time. The building
was on the lower end of Brought street
between Houston and East Broad There
was a small stOop belonging to the old
building which projected over onto the
sidewalk. The old house was torn away,
and this stoop was propped up in great
shape to keep it from falling. Behind it
the new house was built and when COM
pleted the old stOop was torn away, and
new one built to make ii appear that
the ordinance had been complied with,
and 1t was what would be called an eva
SION or suDterfuge rather than a viola
ton.
An instance in point Of a building now
being erected on Perry street, between
Abercorn and Drayton streets, was com
mented on day or two ago.
Mayor McDOnough attention was
called to the matter of the building on
York street yesterday He said he had
Just had his attention called to the build
ing while riding past on the street during
the morning, but had not had time to in
vestigate it. Under theOrdinance Mayor
McDonough said that the owner of a one
story frame building within the fire
limits could, with the permission of coun-
Gil, raise his building one story, provided
the roof was covered with tin or slate and
the encroachment beyond the original
building did not exceed a certain fixed
area. If the owner of the building on
York street was erecting a new building
on the pretense of remodeling the old one,
1t was certainly violation of the ordi-
nance, the mayor said