The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-20
OFFICIAL.
CITY G0VERNM EMIT.

The following being full and cor
rect description of a standard build
ing:
(brick preferred) not less than Is
inches thick at top story, extending
through, and IS inches above roof in
parapet and coped and increasing four
inches in thickness for each story be-
low to the ground, the increased thick
ness of each story to be utilized for
beam and girder lodges. Ground floor
area not over 5000 square feet (say,
30 by 1000 hight not over four stories,
or so feet; floors of three~inch plank,
covered by one-inch flooring crossing
AZ right angles, with waterproof pa
per between (tin or sheet iron between
preferred); wooden beams and Orders
ard wooden story posts or columns II
inches square, or protected iron coll
umns elevators, stadrways, etc, cut
off by brick walls or plaster on me-
tallic studs and lathing; communica-
tons with stairways at each floor pro-
tected with approved Uncovered doors
and fire. proof stills; windows and doors
on exposed sides, protected by approx
ed Uncovered doors and shutters;
walls of f1ues not less than s inches in
thickness to be lined with fire-brick
terra-cotta or cast-iron, and throat ca
pscity not less than 81 square inches
if steam boilers are used; all floor tim
hers to be trimmed at least four inches
from outside of lue; heated by steam;
lighted by gas; cornices of brick, metal
terra-cotta or other incombustible ma
terial: roof covered with metal or tile;
II partitions are hollow or walls are
furred off, there must be mortar or
other fre-stOps at each floor.
Sec. 9. The term Business Building"
shall embrace all buildings used princi-
pally for business purposes, thus in
Guiding among others, hotels, theaters
and Office buildings.
Sec. 10. The terms Wholesale
Store" or Warehouse shall embrace
ell buildings used Cor intended to be
used) exclusively for purposes of ner-
camille business or storage of goods.
Sec. II. A basement story Of any
building is defined as a story whose
floor is twelve inches or more below
the sidewalk, and whose hight does
not exceed eleven feet in the clear. All
such stories that exceed twelve feet
high shall be considered as first stories.
Sec. u. The hight of all buildings
for the purpose of this ordinance shall
be taken from the grade of sidewalk to
point half way from the lowest to
the highest part of the roof
Sec. 10. Whenever it is sought to
increase the hight of any building be-
yond the hight for which the original
permit was granted, the thickness Of
walls thereof shall also be increased in
accordance with the above table.
Sec A. The outside walls of rooms
ings, such as churches, pub
lie halls, theaters, dining rooms
or the like, if more than fif-
teen or less than twenty-five feet high,
shall average at least sixteen inches; If
over twenty-five feet high, at least
twenty inches; if over forty-five feet
high at least twenty-four inches in
thickness. An increase of four inches
in thickness shall be made in all cases
Where the walls are over one hundred
feet long, unless there are cross walls
of equal hight.
Sec. Is If solid buttresses are en-
ployed with a sectional area of three
hundred or more square inches, placed
less than eighteen feet apart, and eX-
tended to or nearly to top of walls, four
inches may be deducted from the thick
ness of any wall having such but
treSseS.
Sec Is. Cut stone facings of walls
shall he backed up with brinkwork of
same thickness required where no cut
stone is used. In cases where the cut
stone is in a great measure self-sup-
porting, four inches less thickness of
brick backing may be used. ASHER
fronts, properly bonded to the brick
work, may have backing same as self
supporting stone fronts or walls.
Sec. Ii. Any party wall now existing
that shall have been built comfortable
to the requirements of any law regu-
ldting the construction of such walls
and in force at the time of such con-
struction, if sound and in good condi-
ton, may be used in the construction
of any adjoining building; Provided,
however, that no brick work shall be
placed on such wall to give additional
hight to the wall, unless the thickness
of such additional wall and the thick
ness of the old wall in each story shall
at least equal the thickness required
for division walls. This section shall
apply in all cases where it is desired
to add additional hight to any bust
ness building. In case of outside walls
of any business building being built
against the wall of any old building
(not being a party walD the new wall
shall be of the same thickness re-
quired for outside walls in such build
ing.
Sec. is. A. Buildings having the first
story or basement and first story de-
signed for business purposes, and the
upper stories for dwellings, the first
being not more than thirty inches
above grade of sidewalk. shall have
walls of brickwork of the thickness as
lOllONS, lO-Wlls tOf lWO-SLOfV ana
basement buildings, the basement and
first story walls. twelve inches; Sec
ond story, eight inches; for three-story
and basement buildings, basement wall,
sixteen inches; first and second stories,
twelve inches; third story, eight inches;
for four-story buildings, the basement
wall twenty inches; first story, sixteen
inches; second. third and fourth sto-
RES twelve inches. When built in
of
division walls in three-story buildings
may be twelve inches in basement, and
IN four-story buildings they may be
sixteen inches in basement.
Sec. is, B. Thickness of brick walls
OF dwelling houses-1 In two story
buildings the foundation and first story
walls shall not be less than one and
one-half brick thick; second story
gables and parapets may be one brick
mick: In three story buildings the
foundation walls to be not less than
two brick thick, first and second story
not less than one and one-half, third
slory' gables and parapets may be one
orlck thick. In four story buildings,
foundation and first story to be not
iess than two brick thick, second and
thlrd story one and one-half brick
NICK Fourth story, gables and para
pets may be one brick thick.
4 Wherever two or more dwell
lngs are built adjoining, the party wall
Detween same may be four inches less
IN thickness than required for the ex-
terlor wall in their respective stories